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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64544" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-27T20:10:36.101Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:57:21.054Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64544" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64544.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64544" title: "crypto: asymmetric_keys - fix OOB read in pefile_digest_pe_contents" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: asymmetric_keys - fix OOB read in pefile_digest_pe_contents\n\npefile_digest_pe_contents() computes the trailing-data hash length as\npelen - (hashed_bytes + certs_size). A crafted PE can make the addition\nexceed pelen, causing the unsigned subtraction to underflow to ~4 GiB.\nThis is passed to crypto_shash_update() which reads out of bounds and\npanics on unmapped vmalloc guard pages.\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc900038d8000\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n RIP: 0010:sha256_blocks_generic (lib/crypto/sha256.c:152)\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __sha256_update (lib/crypto/sha256.c:208)\n crypto_sha256_update (crypto/sha256.c:142)\n verify_pefile_signature (crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c:436)\n kexec_kernel_verify_pe_sig (kernel/kexec_file.c:151)\n __do_sys_kexec_file_load (kernel/kexec_file.c:406)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nValidate that the addition does not overflow and the result does not\nexceed pelen before the subtraction. Return -ELIBBAD on failure." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89efd998470a93284b7ad5a20d4e0e3c6858ae8e"},{"version":"af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7016377699b5b25b7ec3c0bf2ec3f983c7e95f7c"},{"version":"af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b798ada5a5d1cb4cc4cfa72074b1b463eca6c506"},{"version":"af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"627938383761fb4334b41ebe7ef438d6b8b19d60"},{"version":"af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e162bc386e71b5412425a38ee048e8d2185491b9"},{"version":"af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6acd2fbd00f9c72aebefce63fc2e73e8f3d79061"},{"version":"af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"803591785d33cf13b6f73ce2796e8b9e6d5e6526"},{"version":"af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7dd32c5179d7755de18e21d5674b08f9e5cb180"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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