CVE-2024-26584

net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Feb 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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Description

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

net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests

Since we're setting the CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG flag on our requests to the crypto API, crypto_aead_{encrypt,decrypt} can return -EBUSY instead of -EINPROGRESS in valid situations. For example, when the cryptd queue for AESNI is full (easy to trigger with an artificially low cryptd.cryptd_max_cpu_qlen), requests will be enqueued to the backlog but still processed. In that case, the async callback will also be called twice: first with err == -EINPROGRESS, which it seems we can just ignore, then with err == 0.

Compared to Sabrina's original patch this version uses the new tls_*crypt_async_wait() helpers and converts the EBUSY to EINPROGRESS to avoid having to modify all the error handling paths. The handling is identical.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a54667f6728c2714a400f3c884727da74b6d1717 to before 3ade391adc584f17b5570fd205de3ad029090368Affected
  • a54667f6728c2714a400f3c884727da74b6d1717 to before cd1bbca03f3c1d845ce274c0d0a66de8e5929f72Affected
  • a54667f6728c2714a400f3c884727da74b6d1717 to before 13eca403876bbea3716e82cdfe6f1e6febb38754Affected
  • a54667f6728c2714a400f3c884727da74b6d1717 to before ab6397f072e5097f267abf5cb08a8004e6b17694Affected
  • a54667f6728c2714a400f3c884727da74b6d1717 to before 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.16Affected
  • before 4.16Not affected
  • 5.15.160 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.84 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.18 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7.6 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8 and laterNot affected

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