CVE-2025-37984

crypto: ecdsa - Harden against integer overflows in DIV_ROUND_UP()

State
Published
Severity
7.0 High
Published
May 20, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

crypto: ecdsa - Harden against integer overflows in DIV_ROUND_UP()

Herbert notes that DIV_ROUND_UP() may overflow unnecessarily if an ecdsa implementation's ->key_size() callback returns an unusually large value. Herbert instead suggests (for a division by 8):

X / 8 + !!(X & 7)

Based on this formula, introduce a generic DIV_ROUND_UP_POW2() macro and use it in lieu of DIV_ROUND_UP() for ->key_size() return values.

Additionally, use the macro in ecc_digits_from_bytes(), whose "nbytes" parameter is a ->key_size() return value in some instances, or a user-specified ASN.1 length in the case of ecdsa_get_signature_rs().

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 55779f26eab9af12474a447001bd17070f055712 to before f02f0218be412cff1c844addf58e002071be298bAffected
  • c6ab5c915da460c0397960af3c308386c3f3247b to before f2133b849ff273abddb6da622daddd8f6f6fa448Affected
  • c6ab5c915da460c0397960af3c308386c3f3247b to before 921b8167f10708e38080f84e195cdc68a7a561f1Affected
  • c6ab5c915da460c0397960af3c308386c3f3247b to before b16510a530d1e6ab9683f04f8fb34f2e0f538275Affected
  • 6.6.70 to before 6.6.99Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.10Affected
  • before 6.10Not affected
  • 6.6.99 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.39 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.14.5 through 6.14.*Not affected
  • 6.15 and laterNot affected

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