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Linux Linux — net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0075 52.0 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux a54667f6728c2714a400f3c884727da74b6d1717 – —
Linux 4.16 – 5.15.160
TIMELINE
Feb 19 Reserved by Linux
Feb 21 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-26584 (Linux). CVSS 9.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests
Since we're setting the CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG flag on our
requests to the crypto API, crypto_aead_{encrypt,decrypt} can return
-EBUSY instead of -EINPROGRESS in valid situations. For example, when
the cryptd queue for AESNI is full (easy to trigger with an
artificially low cryptd.cryptd_max_cpu_qlen), requests will be enqueued
to the backlog but still processed. In that case, the async callback
will also be called twice: first with err == -EINPROGRESS, which it
seems we can just ignore, then with err == 0.
Compared to Sabrina's original patch this version uses the new
tls_*crypt_async_wait() helpers and converts the EBUSY to
EINPROGRESS to avoid having to modify all the error handling
paths. The handling is identical.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| February 19, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| February 21, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-26584 (Linux). CVSS 9.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | a54667f6728c2714a400f3c884727da74b6d1717 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 4.16 | 5.15.160 |
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