CVE-2026-31533CRITICAL 9.8EPSS p17.5%
CVE-2026-31533CVE-2026-31533
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption
The -EBUSY handling in tls_do_encryption(), introduced by commit
859054147318 ("net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests"), has
a use-after-free due to double cleanup of encrypt_pending and the
scatterlist entry.
When crypto_aead_encrypt() returns -EBUSY, the request is enqueued to
the cryptd backlog and the async callback tls_encrypt_done() will be
invoked upon completion. That callback unconditionally restores the
scatterlist entry (sge->offset, sge->length) and decrements
ctx->encrypt_pending. However, if tls_encrypt_async_wait() returns an
error, the synchronous error path in tls_do_encryption() performs the
same cleanup again, double-decrementing encrypt_pending and
double-restoring the scatterlist.
The double-decrement corrupts the encrypt_pending sentinel (initialized
to 1), making tls_encrypt_async_wait() permanently skip the wait for
pending async callbacks. A subsequent sendmsg can then free the
tls_rec via bpf_exec_tx_verdict() while a cryptd callback is still
pending, resulting in a use-after-free when the callback fires on the
freed record.
Fix this by skipping the synchronous cleanup when the -EBUSY async
wait returns an error, since the callback has already handled
encrypt_pending and sge restoration.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 9.8 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.26% probability of exploitation · percentile 17.5% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2026-04-23 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-29 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02f3ecadb23558bbe068e6504118f1b712d4ece0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e43e0a3c94044acc74b8e0927c27972eb5a59e8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2694d408b0e595024e0fc1d64ff9db0358580f74
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/414fc5e5a5aff776c150f1b86770e0a25a35df3a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d70eb25b41e9b010828cd12818b06a0c3b04412
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9b8b18364fffce4c451e6f6fd218fa4ab646705
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9facde6c5005205874c37db3fd25799d741baf
1
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Use After Freecwe-416 | 0% | live |
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