CVE-2026-64436
⚠️ highSummary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: af_key: initialize alg_key_len for IPComp states pfkey_msg2xfrm_state() handles the IPComp (SADB_X_SATYPE_IPCOMP) case by allocating x->calg and copying only the algorithm name: x->calg = kmalloc_obj(*x->calg); if (!x->calg) { err = -ENOMEM; goto out; } strcpy(x->calg->alg_name, a->name); x->props.calgo = sa->sadb_sa_encrypt; Unlike the authentication (x->aalg) and encryption (x->ealg) branches of the same func
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: af_key: initialize alg_key_len for IPComp states
pfkey_msg2xfrm_state() handles the IPComp (SADB_X_SATYPE_IPCOMP) case by
allocating x->calg and copying only the algorithm name:
x->calg = kmalloc_obj(*x->calg);
if (!x->calg) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
strcpy(x->calg->alg_name, a->name);
x->props.calgo = sa->sadb_sa_encrypt;
Unlike the authentication (x->aalg) and encryption (x->ealg) branches of
the same function, the compression branch never initializes
calg->alg_key_len. IPComp carries no key and the allocation only
reserves sizeof(struct xfrm_algo) (i.e. no room for a key), so the field
is left containing uninitialized slab data.
calg->alg_key_len is later used as a length by xfrm_algo_clone() when an
IPComp state is cloned during XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE:
xfrm_state_migrate()
xfrm_state_clone_and_setup()
x->calg = xfrm_algo_clone(orig->calg);
kmemdup(orig, xfrm_alg_len(orig));
where xfrm_alg_len() returns sizeof(*alg) + (alg_key_len + 7) / 8. With
a non-zero garbage alg_key_len, kmemdup() reads past the end of the
68-byte calg object. Adding an IPComp SA via PF_KEY and then migrating
it triggers (net-next, KASAN, init_on_alloc=0):
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmemdup_noprof+0x44/0x60
Read of size 4164 at addr ff11000025a74980 by task diag2/9287
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 9287 Comm: diag2 7.1.0-rc6-g903db046d557 #1
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x10e/0x1f0
print_report+0xf7/0x600
kasan_report+0xe4/0x120
kasan_check_range+0x105/0x1b0
__asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60
kmemdup_noprof+0x44/0x60
xfrm_state_migrate+0x70a/0x1da0
xfrm_migrate+0x753/0x18a0
xfrm_do_migrate+0xb47/0xf10
xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x411/0xb50
netlink_rcv_skb+0x158/0x420
xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x71/0x90
netlink_unicast+0x584/0x850
netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xdc0
____sys_sendmsg+0x9f7/0xb90
___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0
__sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x220
do_syscall_64+0x116/0x7d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
Allocated by task 9287:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0
pfkey_add+0x2652/0x2ea0
pfkey_process+0x6d0/0x830
pfkey_sendmsg+0x42c/0x850
__sys_sendto+0x461/0x4b0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0x116/0x7d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The buggy address belongs to the object at ff11000025a74980
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
allocated 68-byte region [ff11000025a74980, ff11000025a749c4)
Depending on the uninitialized value the same field can instead request
an oversized kmemdup() allocation and make the migration clone fail.
The XFRM netlink path is not affected: verify_one_alg() rejects an
XFRMA_ALG_COMP attribute shorter than xfrm_alg_len(), so a calg added via
XFRM_MSG_NEWSA is always self-consistent.
Initialize calg->alg_key_len to 0, matching the aalg/ealg branches.
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence
This CVE is Moderate Risk - more severe than 52.9% of all 340,405 vulnerabilities in our database.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H