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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74578"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-16T08:20:32.055Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:57.566Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74578"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74578.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74578"
title: "crypto: algif_skcipher - force synchronous processing on trees without ctx-\u003estate"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: algif_skcipher - force synchronous processing on trees without ctx-\u003estate\n\nThe AIO/async path in skcipher_recvmsg() passes the socket-wide ctx-\u003eiv\ndirectly into the skcipher request. After io_submit() the socket lock is\ndropped and the request is processed asynchronously, so a concurrent\nsendmsg(ALG_SET_IV) can overwrite ctx-\u003eiv and make the in-flight request\nrun under an attacker-controlled IV. For CTR/stream modes this is\nIV/keystream reuse and lets an unprivileged user recover the plaintext of\na concurrent operation.\n\nSnapshotting ctx-\u003eiv into per-request storage for the async path is not\nsufficient. For ciphers with statesize == 0 - which includes cbc and ctr -\nthe MSG_MORE inter-chunk IV chaining is carried solely by the in-place\nreq-\u003eiv writeback, which a snapshot redirects into per-request memory that\naf_alg_free_resources() releases on completion, silently producing wrong\noutput. Writing the IV back from the completion callback instead is not\npossible either: that would require lock_sock() there, but the callback can\nrun in softirq/atomic context, so it must not sleep.\n\nMake the operation synchronous instead, which removes both the IV race and\nany writeback race. This is equivalent to the upstream resolution, commit\nfcc77d33a34c (\"net: Remove support for AIO on sockets\"), which removed the\nAIO socket path across net/ entirely and so produces the same end state for\nthis file. This patch deviates from that commit deliberately: rather than\nremoving AIO socket support tree-wide, which would be far too invasive for\nstable, it removes only the AIO branch in crypto/algif_skcipher.c.\nio_submit() now completes synchronously; AF_ALG async is rarely used in\npractice.\n\nThe -EIOCBQUEUED check in skcipher_recvmsg() is now dead but harmless,\nand is left alone to keep the fix minimal.\n\nTested on 6.6.y: attacker IV injection dropped from 2296/200000 to 0/200000\nafter the change; MSG_MORE chunked CTR output bit-identical to single-shot."
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