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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31533" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-23T15:11:06.955Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:45:55.376Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31533" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31533.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31533" title: "net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption\n\nThe -EBUSY handling in tls_do_encryption(), introduced by commit\n859054147318 (\"net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests\"), has\na use-after-free due to double cleanup of encrypt_pending and the\nscatterlist entry.\n\nWhen crypto_aead_encrypt() returns -EBUSY, the request is enqueued to\nthe cryptd backlog and the async callback tls_encrypt_done() will be\ninvoked upon completion. That callback unconditionally restores the\nscatterlist entry (sge-\u003eoffset, sge-\u003elength) and decrements\nctx-\u003eencrypt_pending. However, if tls_encrypt_async_wait() returns an\nerror, the synchronous error path in tls_do_encryption() performs the\nsame cleanup again, double-decrementing encrypt_pending and\ndouble-restoring the scatterlist.\n\nThe double-decrement corrupts the encrypt_pending sentinel (initialized\nto 1), making tls_encrypt_async_wait() permanently skip the wait for\npending async callbacks. A subsequent sendmsg can then free the\ntls_rec via bpf_exec_tx_verdict() while a cryptd callback is still\npending, resulting in a use-after-free when the callback fires on the\nfreed record.\n\nFix this by skipping the synchronous cleanup when the -EBUSY async\nwait returns an error, since the callback has already handled\nencrypt_pending and sge restoration." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3ade391adc584f17b5570fd205de3ad029090368","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"414fc5e5a5aff776c150f1b86770e0a25a35df3a"},{"version":"cd1bbca03f3c1d845ce274c0d0a66de8e5929f72","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02f3ecadb23558bbe068e6504118f1b712d4ece0"},{"version":"13eca403876bbea3716e82cdfe6f1e6febb38754","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e43e0a3c94044acc74b8e0927c27972eb5a59e8"},{"version":"8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa9facde6c5005205874c37db3fd25799d741baf"},{"version":"8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d70eb25b41e9b010828cd12818b06a0c3b04412"},{"version":"8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2694d408b0e595024e0fc1d64ff9db0358580f74"},{"version":"8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9b8b18364fffce4c451e6f6fd218fa4ab646705"},{"version":"ab6397f072e5097f267abf5cb08a8004e6b17694","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.160","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.203"},{"version":"6.1.84","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.169"},{"version":"6.6.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.135"},{"version":"6.7.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.169","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.82","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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