# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-52956"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:28:38.414Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:41:40.803Z"
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-2026-52956"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52956.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52956"
title: "libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in __ceph_x_decrypt()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlibceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in __ceph_x_decrypt()\n\nIn __ceph_x_decrypt(), a part of the buffer p is interpreted as a\nceph_x_encrypt_header, and the magic field of this struct is accessed.\nThis happens without any guarantee that the buffer is large enough to\nhold this struct. The function parameter ciphertext_len represents the\nlength of the ciphertext to decrypt and is guaranteed to be at most the\nremaining size of the allocated buffer p. However, this value is not\nnecessarily greater than sizeof(ceph_x_encrypt_header). E.g., a message\nframe of type FRAME_TAG_AUTH_REPLY_MORE, that is just as long to hold\nthe ciphertext at its end with a ciphertext_len of 8 or less, can\ntrigger an out-of-bounds memory access when accessing hdr-\u003emagic.\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by adding a check to ensure that the\ndecrypted plaintext in the buffer is large enough to represent at least\nthe ceph_x_encrypt_header."
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