CVE-2024-26800 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-26800

tls: fix use-after-free on failed backlog decryption

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: fix use-after-free on failed backlog decryption When the decrypt request goes to the backlog and crypto_aead_decrypt returns -EBUSY, tls_do_decryption will wait until all async decryptions have completed. If one of them fails, tls_do_decryption will return -EBADMSG and tls_decrypt_sg jumps to the error path, releasing all the pages. But the pages have been passed to the async callback, and have already been released by tls_decrypt_done. The only true async case is when crypto_aead_decrypt returns -EINPROGRESS. With -EBUSY, we already waited so we can tell tls_sw_recvmsg that the data is available for immediate copy, but we need to notify tls_decrypt_sg (via the new ->async_done flag) that the memory has already been released.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
cd1bbca03f3c1d845ce274c0d0a66de8e5929f72, 13eca403876bbea3716e82cdfe6f1e6febb38754, ab6397f072e5097f267abf5cb08a8004e6b17694, 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3, 3ade391adc584f17b5570fd205de3ad029090368, 5.15.160, 6.6.18, 6.7.6

Timeline

Official Publish: April 4th, 2024
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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