CVE-2026-31533: net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption The -EBUSY handling in tls_do_encryption(), introduced by commit 859054147318 ("net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests"), has a use-after-free due to double cleanup of encrypt_pending and the scatterlist entry. When crypto_aead_encrypt() returns -EBUSY, the request is enqueued to the cryptd backlog and the async callback tls_encrypt_done() will be invoked upon completion. That callback unconditionally restores the scatterlist entry (sge->offset, sge->length) and decrements ctx->encrypt_pending. However, if tls_encrypt_async_wait() returns an error, the synchronous error path in tls_do_encryption() performs the same cleanup again, double-decrementing encrypt_pending and double-restoring the scatterlist. The double-decrement corrupts the encrypt_pending sentinel (initialized to 1), making tls_encrypt_async_wait() permanently skip the wait for pending async callbacks. A subsequent sendmsg can then free the tls_rec via bpf_exec_tx_verdict() while a cryptd callback is still pending, resulting in a use-after-free when the callback fires on the freed record. Fix this by skipping the synchronous cleanup when the -EBUSY async wait returns an error, since the callback has already handled encrypt_pending and sge restoration.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 9.8
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 414fc5e5a5aff776c150f1b86770e0a25a35df3a (from 3ade391adc584f17b5570fd205de3ad029090368) · < 02f3ecadb23558bbe068e6504118f1b712d4ece0 (from cd1bbca03f3c1d845ce274c0d0a66de8e5929f72) · < 0e43e0a3c94044acc74b8e0927c27972eb5a59e8 (from 13eca403876bbea3716e82cdfe6f1e6febb38754) · < aa9facde6c5005205874c37db3fd25799d741baf (from 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3) · < 5d70eb25b41e9b010828cd12818b06a0c3b04412 (from 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3) · < 2694d408b0e595024e0fc1d64ff9db0358580f74 (from 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3)
- Linux / Linux6.8Fixed in 0, 5.15.203, 6.1.169, 6.6.135, 6.12.82, 6.18.23, 6.19.13, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H