{"id":74823,"date":"2025-12-24T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-68726-crypto-aead-fix-reqsize-handling\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:16:01","slug":"cve-2025-68726-crypto-aead-fix-reqsize-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-68726-crypto-aead-fix-reqsize-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-68726 &#8211; crypto: aead &#8211; Fix reqsize handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-68726<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Dec. 24, 2025, 11:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 5\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>crypto: aead &#8211; Fix reqsize handling<\/p>\n<p>Commit afddce13ce81d (&#8220;crypto: api &#8211; Add reqsize to crypto_alg&#8221;)<br \/>\nintroduced cra_reqsize field in crypto_alg struct to replace type<br \/>\nspecific reqsize fields. It looks like this was introduced specifically<br \/>\nfor ahash and acomp from the commit description as subsequent commits<br \/>\nadd necessary changes in these alg frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is being recommended for use in all crypto algs<br \/>\ninstead of setting reqsize using crypto_*_set_reqsize(). Using<br \/>\ncra_reqsize in aead algorithms, hence, causes memory corruptions and<br \/>\ncrashes as the underlying functions in the algorithm framework have not<br \/>\nbeen updated to set the reqsize properly from cra_reqsize. [1]\n<p>Add proper set_reqsize calls in the aead init function to properly<br \/>\ninitialize reqsize for these algorithms in the framework.<\/p>\n[1]: https:\/\/gist.github.com\/Pratham-T\/24247446f1faf4b7843e4014d5089f6b<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-68726 Published : Dec. 24, 2025, 11:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 5\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: aead &#8211; Fix reqsize handling Commit afddce13ce81d (&#8220;crypto: api &#8211; Add reqsize to crypto_alg&#8221;) introduced cra_reqsize field in crypto_alg struct to replace type specific reqsize fields. It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}