CVE-2025-71231 PUBLISHED

crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 18.02.2026 Published: 18.02.2026 Updated: 18.02.2026

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

crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode

The local variable 'i' is initialized with -EINVAL, but the for loop immediately overwrites it and -EINVAL is never returned.

If no empty compression mode can be found, the function would return the out-of-bounds index IAA_COMP_MODES_MAX, which would cause an invalid array access in add_iaa_compression_mode().

Fix both issues by returning either a valid index or -EINVAL.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to c77b33b58512708bd5603f48465f018c8b748847 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to d75207465eed20bc9b0daa4a0927de9568996067 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to de16f5bca05cace238d237791ed1b6e9d22dab60 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 6.12.72 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.11 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.1 to 6.19.* (incl.)

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