# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-52972"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:28:50.425Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:50:24.931Z"
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-2026-52972"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52972.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52972"
title: "crypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000\n\nIn order to prevent arithmetic overflows when checking the TX\nbuffer size, cap the associated data length to 0x80000000."
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