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
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
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 9.8 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ade391adc584f17b5570fd205de3ad029090368
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd1bbca03f3c1d845ce274c0d0a66de8e5929f72
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13eca403876bbea3716e82cdfe6f1e6febb38754
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab6397f072e5097f267abf5cb08a8004e6b17694
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZOU3745CWCDZ7EMKMXB2OEEIB5Q3IWM/
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