CVE-2026-80843EPSS p8.3%
CVE-2026-80843CVE-2026-80843
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak
attach_auth_trunc() can allocate x->aalg while leaving
x->props.aalgo at zero when the selected auth algorithm has no
sadb_alg_id. One real case is cmac(aes).
xfrm_state_construct() then treats !x->props.aalgo as "no auth
algorithm attached yet" and calls attach_auth(). That overwrites
x->aalg and loses the first allocation. Any later failure or teardown
only frees the replacement pointer.
Check whether x->aalg is already attached instead of inferring that
state from x->props.aalgo.
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.19% probability of exploitation · percentile 8.3% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-04 |