CVE-2026-23414: tls: Purge async_hold in tls_decrypt_async_wait()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: Purge async_hold in tls_decrypt_async_wait() The async_hold queue pins encrypted input skbs while the AEAD engine references their scatterlist data. Once tls_decrypt_async_wait() returns, every AEAD operation has completed and the engine no longer references those skbs, so they can be freed unconditionally. A subsequent patch adds batch async decryption to tls_sw_read_sock(), introducing a new call site that must drain pending AEAD operations and release held skbs. Move __skb_queue_purge(&ctx->async_hold) into tls_decrypt_async_wait() so the purge is centralized and every caller -- recvmsg's drain path, the -EBUSY fallback in tls_do_decryption(), and the new read_sock batch path -- releases held skbs on synchronization without each site managing the purge independently. This fixes a leak when tls_strp_msg_hold() fails part-way through, after having added some cloned skbs to the async_hold queue. tls_decrypt_sg() will then call tls_decrypt_async_wait() to process all pending decrypts, and drop back to synchronous mode, but tls_sw_recvmsg() only flushes the async_hold queue when one record has been processed in "fully-async" mode, which may not be the case here. [pabeni@redhat.com: added leak comment]
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< ac435be7c7613eb13a5a8ceb5182e10b50c9ce87 (from 9f83fd0c179e0f458e824e417f9d5ad53443f685) · < 2dcf324855c34e7f934ce978aa19b645a8f3ee71 (from c61d4368197d65c4809d9271f3b85325a600586a) · < 6dc11e0bd0a5466bcc76d275c09e5537bd0597dd (from 39dec4ea3daf77f684308576baf483b55ca7f160) · < 9f557c7eae127b44d2e863917dc986a4b6cb1269 (from b8a6ff84abbcbbc445463de58704686011edc8e1) · < fd8037e1f18ca5336934d0e0e7e1a4fe097e749d (from b8a6ff84abbcbbc445463de58704686011edc8e1) · < 84a8335d8300576f1b377ae24abca1d9f197807f (from b8a6ff84abbcbbc445463de58704686011edc8e1)
- Linux / Linux6.18Fixed in 0, 6.1.168, 6.6.131, 6.12.80, 6.18.21, 6.19.11, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H