SUSE CVE-2026-52972

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: afalg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000 In order to prevent arithmetic overflows when checking the TX buffer size, cap the associated data length to 0x80000000...

CVE-2026-52972

CVE-2026-52972 affects the Linux kernel crypto/af_alg component, causing an arithmetic overflow when handling associated data lengths during the TX buffer size check. The root cause is the potential overflow if AD length is not capped; the fix caps the AD length to 0x80000000. Multiple OS vendors...