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CVE-2026-64544 (GCVE-0-2026-64544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 20:10 – Updated: 2026-08-17 04:57
VLAI
Title
crypto: asymmetric_keys - fix OOB read in pefile_digest_pe_contents
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: asymmetric_keys - fix OOB read in pefile_digest_pe_contents pefile_digest_pe_contents() computes the trailing-data hash length as pelen - (hashed_bytes + certs_size). A crafted PE can make the addition exceed pelen, causing the unsigned subtraction to underflow to ~4 GiB. This is passed to crypto_shash_update() which reads out of bounds and panics on unmapped vmalloc guard pages. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc900038d8000 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI RIP: 0010:sha256_blocks_generic (lib/crypto/sha256.c:152) Call Trace: <TASK> __sha256_update (lib/crypto/sha256.c:208) crypto_sha256_update (crypto/sha256.c:142) verify_pefile_signature (crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c:436) kexec_kernel_verify_pe_sig (kernel/kexec_file.c:151) __do_sys_kexec_file_load (kernel/kexec_file.c:406) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121) </TASK> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Validate that the addition does not overflow and the result does not exceed pelen before the subtraction. Return -ELIBBAD on failure.
Severity
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 , < 89efd998470a93284b7ad5a20d4e0e3c6858ae8e (git)
Affected: af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 , < 7016377699b5b25b7ec3c0bf2ec3f983c7e95f7c (git)
Affected: af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 , < b798ada5a5d1cb4cc4cfa72074b1b463eca6c506 (git)
Affected: af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 , < 627938383761fb4334b41ebe7ef438d6b8b19d60 (git)
Affected: af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 , < e162bc386e71b5412425a38ee048e8d2185491b9 (git)
Affected: af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 , < 6acd2fbd00f9c72aebefce63fc2e73e8f3d79061 (git)
Affected: af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 , < 803591785d33cf13b6f73ce2796e8b9e6d5e6526 (git)
Affected: af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 , < f7dd32c5179d7755de18e21d5674b08f9e5cb180 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.