ALSA-2026:50144 Moderate: libgcrypt security update

The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of various cryptographic algorithms. Security Fixes: Libgcrypt: Libgcrypt: Denial of Service and buffer overflow via crafted ECDH ciphertext CVE-2026-41989 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score...

CVE-2023-53599

CVE-2023-53599 concerns the Linux kernel crypto/af_alg path, specifically a missing initialisation in af_alg_alloc_areq() that caused gcm-aes-s390 to oops when req->dst was read and an empty ciphertext is passed. The issue made gcm_walk_start() operate on an uninitialised pointer (areq->fir...