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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89607" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:09.583Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:49:39.398Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89607" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89607.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89607" title: "ecryptfs: reject oversized encrypted_key_size in parse_tag_3_packet" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\necryptfs: reject oversized encrypted_key_size in parse_tag_3_packet\n\nparse_tag_3_packet() set encrypted_key_size from the Tag 3 packet body\nwithout bounding it against ECRYPTFS_MAX_KEY_BYTES (64). When\nencrypted_key_size \u003e 64, decrypt_passphrase_encrypted_session_key()\nsets decrypted_key_size = encrypted_key_size and performs two\nout-of-bounds writes:\n\n1. crypto_skcipher_decrypt() writes encrypted_key_size bytes into\n decrypted_key[64] via scatterlist, overflowing into the parent\n ecryptfs_auth_tok struct.\n2. memcpy(crypt_stat-\u003ekey, decrypted_key, decrypted_key_size) writes\n into crypt_stat-\u003ekey[64], corrupting root_iv, keysig_list, and\n mutexes in ecryptfs_crypt_stat.\n\nOnly AES-192 (cipher code 0x08) enables this because it sets\ncrypt_stat-\u003ekey_size = 24 independently of encrypted_key_size,\nallowing crypto_skcipher_setkey() to succeed while encrypted_key_size\nexceeds ECRYPTFS_MAX_KEY_BYTES.\n\nThe PKI decryption path (parse_tag_65_packet) already validates\ndecrypted_key_size \u003c= ECRYPTFS_MAX_KEY_BYTES; the passphrase path\nomits this check.\n\nBound encrypted_key_size against ECRYPTFS_MAX_KEY_BYTES (64) rather\nthan ECRYPTFS_MAX_ENCRYPTED_KEY_BYTES (512). The 64-byte limit also\nprotects the 512-byte encrypted_key[] buffer, so the former 512-byte\ncheck is removed as redundant.\n\n[tyhicks: Adjust the code comment to refer to macros representing the\n buffer sizes rather than mentioning the buffer size values since they\n may change in the future]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"237fead619984cc48818fe12ee0ceada3f55b012","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2cd21340163494d312836c77c9fbfe2530b3d075"},{"version":"237fead619984cc48818fe12ee0ceada3f55b012","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2152d491ae62d96a32ed59778680a242af1fbc6"},{"version":"237fead619984cc48818fe12ee0ceada3f55b012","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2802414081184f79a619ede178aeef3aa989793"},{"version":"237fead619984cc48818fe12ee0ceada3f55b012","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33e050cac841498b5175f0f385eee903fd98863c"},{"version":"237fead619984cc48818fe12ee0ceada3f55b012","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ccd13eff0e7356d2aa28b127b577e4e5ad4563f5"},{"version":"237fead619984cc48818fe12ee0ceada3f55b012","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14cb36a500a5a3afbc955dbf69dabc565f1a3b26"},{"version":"237fead619984cc48818fe12ee0ceada3f55b012","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a419c9ebfc9a40ee56aaad6dc68bfd67d400817b"},{"version":"237fead619984cc48818fe12ee0ceada3f55b012","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5babe9c177c364521e3e682b949c5a8c47f4a441"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.19"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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