CVE-2023-54325

crypto: qat - fix out-of-bounds read

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Dec 30, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 30, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: qat - fix out-of-bounds read

When preparing an AER-CTR request, the driver copies the key provided by the user into a data structure that is accessible by the firmware. If the target device is QAT GEN4, the key size is rounded up by 16 since a rounded up size is expected by the device. If the key size is rounded up before the copy, the size used for copying the key might be bigger than the size of the region containing the key, causing an out-of-bounds read.

Fix by doing the copy first and then update the keylen.

This is to fix the following warning reported by KASAN:

[ 138.150574] BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in qat_alg_skcipher_init_com.isra.0+0x197/0x250 [intel_qat] [ 138.150641] Read of size 32 at addr ffffffff88c402c0 by task cryptomgr_test/2340

[ 138.150651] CPU: 15 PID: 2340 Comm: cryptomgr_test Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1+ #45 [ 138.150659] Hardware name: Intel Corporation ArcherCity/ArcherCity, BIOS EGSDCRB1.86B.0087.D13.2208261706 08/26/2022 [ 138.150663] Call Trace: [ 138.150668] <TASK> [ 138.150922] kasan_check_range+0x13a/0x1c0 [ 138.150931] memcpy+0x1f/0x60 [ 138.150940] qat_alg_skcipher_init_com.isra.0+0x197/0x250 [intel_qat] [ 138.151006] qat_alg_skcipher_init_sessions+0xc1/0x240 [intel_qat] [ 138.151073] crypto_skcipher_setkey+0x82/0x160 [ 138.151085] ? prepare_keybuf+0xa2/0xd0 [ 138.151095] test_skcipher_vec_cfg+0x2b8/0x800

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 67916c9516893528ecce060ada1f58af0ce33d93 to before 7697139d5dfd491f4c495a914a1dd68f6e827a0fAffected
  • 67916c9516893528ecce060ada1f58af0ce33d93 to before dc3809f390357c8992f0a23083da934a20fef9afAffected
  • 67916c9516893528ecce060ada1f58af0ce33d93 to before 2b1501f058245573a3aa6bf234d205dde1196184Affected
  • 67916c9516893528ecce060ada1f58af0ce33d93 to before f6044cc3030e139f60c281386f28bda6e3049d66Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.11Affected
  • before 5.11Not affected
  • 5.15.99 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.16 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.3 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

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