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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98222"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:44:57.621Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:54.199Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98222"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98222.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98222"
title: "KEYS: encrypted: fix integer overflow of datablob_len"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKEYS: encrypted: fix integer overflow of datablob_len\n\nencrypted_key_alloc() stores datablob_len in a u16. It is computed from\nmultiple string and payload lengths. If the result exceeds U16_MAX, the\nassignment truncates the allocation size. KASAN reports a 32760-byte\nslab-out-of-bounds write when __ekey_init() copies the master key\ndescription into the undersized buffer.\n\nThe total payload length stored in key-\u003edatalen is also a u16. Use\ncheck_add_overflow() to reject values that do not fit either destination,\nand use kzalloc_flex() for the flexible-array allocation."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7e70cb4978507cf31d76b90e4cfb4c28cad87f0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e720f63dbafc093a8f5d519f05b67724993edd4"},{"version":"7e70cb4978507cf31d76b90e4cfb4c28cad87f0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a1a98eca102b1cbbc37ff9eaa197ae4e6a3ea4b0"},{"version":"7e70cb4978507cf31d76b90e4cfb4c28cad87f0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cca38f2102a4cd35eda8d48950df4817b4b24757"},{"version":"7e70cb4978507cf31d76b90e4cfb4c28cad87f0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8697c431e297eb0d0ab13dda6bc172b48a34f05c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.38","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.38"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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