CVE-2026-23060

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 97% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: February 4, 2026 (100 days ago)
Last Modified: February 4, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec authencesn assumes an ESP/ESN-formatted AAD. When assoclen is shorter than the minimum expected length, crypto_authenc_esn_decrypt() can advance past the end of the destination scatterlist and trigger a NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk_map_and_copy(), leading to a kernel panic (DoS). Add a minimum AAD length check to fail fast on invalid inputs.

CWE

CWE-1284

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 lore.kernel.org