CVE-2026-80836 PUBLISHED

crypto: virtio - bound the akcipher result length

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

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

crypto: virtio - bound the akcipher result length

virtio_crypto_dataq_akcipher_callback() sets the result length from the device-reported response length without bounding it to the destination buffer, which was allocated for the original request length. sg_copy_from_buffer() then reads that many bytes from the destination buffer; a backend reporting a larger length over-reads adjacent kernel heap into the caller's scatterlist (an out-of-bounds read).

Clamp the reported length to the originally requested destination length. A conforming device reports no more than that, so valid results are unaffected.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from a36bd0ad9fbf69d0d711b1c105954ce8d6cc144a to 5545de5050cbc3594506d74f2c392b0716cf8bca (excl.)
  • affected from a36bd0ad9fbf69d0d711b1c105954ce8d6cc144a to 3fda114a42f1510a4ec8a0b17a0cfc997952ccc2 (excl.)
  • affected from a36bd0ad9fbf69d0d711b1c105954ce8d6cc144a to 1f9f877b1ef1fbd4ee95571cddf39c8002cee252 (excl.)
  • affected from a36bd0ad9fbf69d0d711b1c105954ce8d6cc144a to f77a956f6a19f9463ef1527c9d0cda50dded6b92 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.19 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.49 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.13 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.3 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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