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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53038" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:45.086Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:45.086Z" 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-2026-53038" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53038.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53038" title: "ima_fs: Correctly create securityfs files for unsupported hash algos" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nima_fs: Correctly create securityfs files for unsupported hash algos\n\nima_tpm_chip-\u003eallocated_banks[i].crypto_id is initialized to\nHASH_ALGO__LAST if the TPM algorithm is not supported. However there\nare places relying on the algorithm to be valid because it is accessed\nby hash_algo_name[].\n\nOn 6.12.40 I observe the following read out-of-bounds in hash_algo_name:\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in create_securityfs_measurement_lists+0x396/0x440\n Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff83e18138 by task swapper/0/1\n\n CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.40 #3\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x61/0x90\n print_report+0xc4/0x580\n ? kasan_addr_to_slab+0x26/0x80\n ? create_securityfs_measurement_lists+0x396/0x440\n kasan_report+0xc2/0x100\n ? create_securityfs_measurement_lists+0x396/0x440\n create_securityfs_measurement_lists+0x396/0x440\n ima_fs_init+0xa3/0x300\n ima_init+0x7d/0xd0\n init_ima+0x28/0x100\n do_one_initcall+0xa6/0x3e0\n kernel_init_freeable+0x455/0x740\n kernel_init+0x24/0x1d0\n ret_from_fork+0x38/0x80\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n The buggy address belongs to the variable:\n hash_algo_name+0xb8/0x420\n\n Memory state around the buggy address:\n ffffffff83e18000: 00 01 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 01 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9\n ffffffff83e18080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n \u003effffffff83e18100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 05 f9 f9\n ^\n ffffffff83e18180: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9\n ffffffff83e18200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9\n ==================================================================\n\nSeems like the TPM chip supports sha3_256, which isn't yet in\ntpm_algorithms:\n tpm tpm0: TPM with unsupported bank algorithm 0x0027\n\nThat's TPM_ALG_SHA3_256 == 0x0027 from \"Trusted Platform Module 2.0\nLibrary Part 2: Structures\", page 51 [1].\nSee also the related U-Boot algorithms update [2].\n\nThus solve the problem by creating a file name with \"_tpm_alg_\u003cID\u003e\"\npostfix if the crypto algorithm isn't initialized.\n\nThis is how it looks on the test machine (patch ported to v6.12 release):\n # ls -1 /sys/kernel/security/ima/\n ascii_runtime_measurements\n ascii_runtime_measurements_tpm_alg_27\n ascii_runtime_measurements_sha1\n ascii_runtime_measurements_sha256\n binary_runtime_measurements\n binary_runtime_measurements_tpm_alg_27\n binary_runtime_measurements_sha1\n binary_runtime_measurements_sha256\n policy\n runtime_measurements_count\n violations\n\n[1]: https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/wp-content/uploads/Trusted-Platform-Module-2.0-Library-Part-2-Version-184_pub.pdf\n[2]: https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2024-July/558835.html" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9fa8e76250082a45d0d3dad525419ab98bd01658","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"081b557cb56e1cfa8d1619b2601b01c53e3f418c"},{"version":"9fa8e76250082a45d0d3dad525419ab98bd01658","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6766b171a5c4c33b26ff6fec530cb798db1f75e"},{"version":"9fa8e76250082a45d0d3dad525419ab98bd01658","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88d4e89a39f0de07798ca3fd93bd1a9ea212a82e"},{"version":"9fa8e76250082a45d0d3dad525419ab98bd01658","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7bd8cf0b348d3edae7bee33e74a32b21668b181"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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