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CVE-2026-64544

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: asymmetric_keys - fix OOB read in pefile_digest_pe_contents pefile_digest_pe_contents() computes the trailing-data hash length as pelen - (hashed_bytes + certs_size). A crafted PE can make the addition exceed pelen, causing the unsigned subtraction to underflow to ~4 GiB. This is passed to crypto_shash_update() which reads out of bounds and panics on unmapped vmalloc guard pages. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc900038d8000 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI RIP: 0010:sha256_blocks_generic (lib/crypto/sha256.c:152) Call Trace: <TASK> __sha256_update (lib/crypto/sha256.c:208) crypto_sha256_update (crypto/sha256.c:142) verify_pefile_signature (crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c:436) kexec_kernel_verify_pe_sig (kernel/kexec_file.c:151) __do_sys_kexec_file_load (kernel/kexec_file.c:406) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121) </TASK> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Validate that the addition does not overflow and the result does not exceed pelen before the subtraction. Return -ELIBBAD on failure.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-64544
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 15:36 UTC
Published
2026-07-27 20:10 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-27 20:10 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 < 89efd998470a93284b7ad5a20d4e0e3c6858ae8e, af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 < 7016377699b5b25b7ec3c0bf2ec3f983c7e95f7c, af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 < b798ada5a5d1cb4cc4cfa72074b1b463eca6c506, af316fc442ef23901bbfcec5af55e69ca6ce9563 < 627938383761fb4334b41ebe7ef438d6b8b19d60 …
Linux Linux 3.17, 0 < 3.17, 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.*, 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* …
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