CVE-2026-64439

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-64439

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

crypto: krb5 - filter out async aead implementations at alloc

krb5_aead_encrypt(), krb5_aead_decrypt() in rfc3961_simplified.c and

rfc8009_encrypt(), rfc8009_decrypt() in rfc8009_aes2.c set a NULL

completion callback and treat any negative return from

crypto_aead_{encrypt,decrypt}() as terminal, falling through to

kfree_sensitive(buffer). When the encrypt_name resolves to an

async AEAD instance the request returns -EINPROGRESS, the buffer

is freed while the backend's worker still holds a pointer, and the

worker dereferences the freed slab on completion.

KASAN report under UML+SLUB with a synthetic async aead backend

bound to krb5->encrypt_name:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in t5_stub_complete+0x7d/0xc7

The helpers were written synchronously, so filter the async

instances out at allocation time instead of plumbing

crypto_wait_req() through every call site.

Reachable via net/rxrpc/rxgk.c, fs/afs/cm_security.c and

net/ceph/crypto.c on systems with an async AEAD provider bound to

the krb5 enctype name. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References