CVE-2026-52956: libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in __ceph_x_decrypt()

CVE-2026-52956: libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in __ceph_x_decrypt()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in __ceph_x_decrypt()

In __ceph_x_decrypt(), a part of the buffer p is interpreted as a
ceph_x_encrypt_header, and the magic field of this struct is accessed.
This happens without any guarantee that the buffer is large enough to
hold this struct. The function parameter ciphertext_len represents the
length of the ciphertext to decrypt and is guaranteed to be at most the
remaining size of the allocated buffer p. However, this value is not
necessarily greater than sizeof(ceph_x_encrypt_header). E.g., a message
frame of type FRAME_TAG_AUTH_REPLY_MORE, that is just as long to hold
the ciphertext at its end with a ciphertext_len of 8 or less, can
trigger an out-of-bounds memory access when accessing hdr->magic.

This patch fixes the issue by adding a check to ensure that the
decrypted plaintext in the buffer is large enough to represent at least
the ceph_x_encrypt_header.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-52956 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 7.0.10 with commit c7e9b53aebe401970f1b5f5a01b4e021b18e8bb2
	Fixed in 7.1 with commit 821365487aa58d06bda65c676ba215d506ba9768

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-52956
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/ceph/auth_x.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7e9b53aebe401970f1b5f5a01b4e021b18e8bb2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/821365487aa58d06bda65c676ba215d506ba9768