# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46033"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:56:42.038Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:20:04.446Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46033"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46033.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46033"
title: "crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation\n\nauthencesn requires either a zero authsize or an authsize of at least\n4 bytes because the ESN encrypt/decrypt paths always move 4 bytes of\nhigh-order sequence number data at the end of the authenticated data.\n\nWhile crypto_authenc_esn_setauthsize() already rejects explicit\nnon-zero authsizes in the range 1..3, crypto_authenc_esn_create()\nstill copied auth-\u003edigestsize into inst-\u003ealg.maxauthsize without\nvalidating it.  The AEAD core then initialized the tfm's default\nauthsize from that value.\n\nAs a result, selecting an ahash with digest size 1..3, such as\ncbcmac(cipher_null), exposed authencesn instances whose default\nauthsize was invalid even though setauthsize() would have rejected the\nsame value.  AF_ALG could then trigger the ESN tail handling with a\ntoo-short tag and hit an out-of-bounds access.\n\nReject authencesn instances whose ahash digest size is in the invalid\nnon-zero range 1..3 so that no tfm can inherit an unsupported default\nauthsize."
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