# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46081"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:58:19.498Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:29:32.090Z"
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-2026-46081"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46081.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46081"
title: "crypto: acomp - fix wrong pointer stored by acomp_save_req()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: acomp - fix wrong pointer stored by acomp_save_req()\n\nacomp_save_req() stores &req-\u003echain in req-\u003ebase.data. When\nacomp_reqchain_done() is invoked on asynchronous completion, it receives\n&req-\u003echain as the data argument but casts it directly to struct\nacomp_req. Since data points to the chain member, all subsequent field\naccesses are at a wrong offset, resulting in memory corruption.\n\nThe issue occurs when an asynchronous hardware implementation, such as\nthe QAT driver, completes a request that uses the DMA virtual address\ninterface (e.g. acomp_request_set_src_dma()). This combination causes\ncrypto_acomp_compress() to enter the acomp_do_req_chain() path, which\nsets acomp_reqchain_done() as the completion callback via\nacomp_save_req().\n\nWith KASAN enabled, this manifests as a general protection fault in\nacomp_reqchain_done():\n\n  general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xe000040000000000\n  KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x0000400000000000-0x0000400000000007]\n  RIP: 0010:acomp_reqchain_done+0x15b/0x4e0\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cIRQ\u003e\n   qat_comp_alg_callback+0x5d/0xa0 [intel_qat]\n   adf_ring_response_handler+0x376/0x8b0 [intel_qat]\n   adf_response_handler+0x60/0x170 [intel_qat]\n   tasklet_action_common+0x223/0x820\n   handle_softirqs+0x1ab/0x640\n   \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\nFix this by storing the request itself in req-\u003ebase.data instead of\n&req-\u003echain, so that acomp_reqchain_done() receives the correct pointer.\nSimplify acomp_restore_req() accordingly to access req-\u003echain directly."
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