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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68125"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:58:46.198Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:52.090Z"
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-2026-68125"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68125.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68125"
title: "mac802154: llsec: reject frames shorter than the authentication tag"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmac802154: llsec: reject frames shorter than the authentication tag\n\nllsec_do_decrypt_auth() computes the associated-data length for the\nAEAD request as\n\n\tassoclen += datalen - authlen;\n\nwhere datalen is the number of bytes after the MAC header and authlen\n(4, 8 or 16) is the length of the authentication tag. Nothing verifies\nthat the frame actually carries at least authlen payload bytes. A\nsecured frame whose payload is shorter than the tag makes\ndatalen - authlen negative; assoclen is then passed to\naead_request_set_ad() as an unsigned value close to 4 GiB, so\ncrypto_aead_decrypt() walks far off the end of the scatterlist that\nonly spans the real frame.\n\nThe frame is fully attacker-controlled and reaches this path from any\nIEEE 802.15.4 peer in radio range. Reject frames whose payload is\nshorter than the authentication tag before the subtraction.\n\nDynamically reproduced on a KASAN kernel as a general-protection-fault\nin the AEAD scatterwalk, and the fix confirmed."
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