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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: caam - fix overflow on long hmac keys When a key longer than block size is supplied, it is copied and then hashed into the real key. The memory allocated for the copy needs to be rounded to DMA cache alignment, as otherwise the hashed key may corrupt neighbouring memory. The copying is performed using kmemdup, however this leads to an overflow: reading more bytes (aligned_len - keylen) from the keylen source buffer. Fix this by replacing kmemdup with kmalloc, followed by memcpy.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-01 | Published 2026-05-08 | Updated 2026-05-08 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

199354d7fb6eaa2cc5bb650af0bca624baffee35 (git) before 31022cfde5235c45fa765f0aabeff5f0652852f2
affected

199354d7fb6eaa2cc5bb650af0bca624baffee35 (git) before c2fb4984fe09fc176fe4c12d5e3edf626df6511d
affected

199354d7fb6eaa2cc5bb650af0bca624baffee35 (git) before aa545df011338df13f0833fc1fabcb15c0521959
affected

199354d7fb6eaa2cc5bb650af0bca624baffee35 (git) before cebc5ebd958346195b77f42d0cd5141b4e448fae
affected

199354d7fb6eaa2cc5bb650af0bca624baffee35 (git) before 80688afb9c35b3934ce2d6be9973758915e2e0ef
affected

Default status
affected

6.3
affected

Any version before 6.3
unaffected

6.6.134 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.81 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.22 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.12 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/31022cfde5235c45fa765f0aabeff5f0652852f2

git.kernel.org/...c/c2fb4984fe09fc176fe4c12d5e3edf626df6511d

git.kernel.org/...c/aa545df011338df13f0833fc1fabcb15c0521959

git.kernel.org/...c/cebc5ebd958346195b77f42d0cd5141b4e448fae

git.kernel.org/...c/80688afb9c35b3934ce2d6be9973758915e2e0ef

cve.org (CVE-2026-43330)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-43330)

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