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CVE-2026-43043

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CVSS
5.5 Medium
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Risk score
44.0
Published
2026-05-01
Status
Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: af-alg - fix NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk The AF_ALG interface fails to unmark the end of a Scatter/Gather List (SGL) when chaining a new af_alg_tsgl structure. If a sendmsg() fills an SGL exactly to MAX_SGL_ENTS, the last entry is marked as the end. A subsequent sendmsg() allocates a new SGL and chains it, but fails to clear the end marker on the previous SGL's last data entry. This causes the crypto scatterwalk to hit a premature end, returning NULL on sg_next() and leading to a kernel panic during dereference. Fix this by explicitly unmarking the end of the previous SGL when performing sg_chain() in af_alg_alloc_tsgl(). A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's af-alg subsystem. When the AF_ALG interface chains a new af_alg_tsgl structure, it fails to unmark the end of a Scatter/Gather List (SGL). This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference during a subsequent sendmsg() operation, causing a kernel panic and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Coverage 7

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