CVE-2026-90069 PUBLISHED

crypto: acomp - allocate async request context when cloning

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

crypto: acomp - allocate async request context when cloning

ACOMP_REQUEST_ON_STACK() reserves only enough storage for the synchronous fallback. When an async implementation is selected, callers clone that stack request before retrying, but acomp_request_clone() currently copies only the stack-sized object. The clone therefore has no storage for the async provider request context, and providers such as QAT write past the allocation through acomp_request_ctx(). KASAN does report a slab OOB write.

Allocate a zeroed clone large enough for the runtime acomp request size, copy only the bytes present in the source object, and preserve the existing fallback-on-allocation-failure behavior. Use the runtime reqsize because an implementation may adjust it during tfm initialization.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 097c432caaa6d91f87732fe991cb08139e31101a to d48197cbd5d3476c7deea644972e9ec510865ec2 (excl.)
  • affected from 097c432caaa6d91f87732fe991cb08139e31101a to 889fa17a0af09ff93a9166abc82ee7a654faa49b (excl.)
  • affected from 097c432caaa6d91f87732fe991cb08139e31101a to ee440d4fc0d2f15894ab1f64c474a3adbc858880 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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