CVE-2024-26789

crypto: arm64/neonbs - fix out-of-bounds access on short input

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Apr 4, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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Description

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

crypto: arm64/neonbs - fix out-of-bounds access on short input

The bit-sliced implementation of AES-CTR operates on blocks of 128 bytes, and will fall back to the plain NEON version for tail blocks or inputs that are shorter than 128 bytes to begin with.

It will call straight into the plain NEON asm helper, which performs all memory accesses in granules of 16 bytes (the size of a NEON register). For this reason, the associated plain NEON glue code will copy inputs shorter than 16 bytes into a temporary buffer, given that this is a rare occurrence and it is not worth the effort to work around this in the asm code.

The fallback from the bit-sliced NEON version fails to take this into account, potentially resulting in out-of-bounds accesses. So clone the same workaround, and use a temp buffer for short in/outputs.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fc074e130051015e39245a4241956ff122e2f465 to before 034e2d70b5c7f578200ad09955aeb2aa65d1164aAffected
  • fc074e130051015e39245a4241956ff122e2f465 to before 1291d278b5574819a7266568ce4c28bce9438705Affected
  • fc074e130051015e39245a4241956ff122e2f465 to before 9e8ecd4908b53941ab6f0f51584ab80c6c6606c4Affected
  • fc074e130051015e39245a4241956ff122e2f465 to before 1c0cf6d19690141002889d72622b90fc01562ce4Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 6.1.81 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.21 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7.9 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8 and laterNot affected

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