High 7.1Published Feb 18, 2026

CVE-2025-71231crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 9:50 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode The local variable 'i' is initialized with -EINVAL, but the for loop immediately overwrites it and -EINVAL is never returned. If no empty compression mode can be found, the function would return the out-of-bounds index IAA_COMP_MODES_MAX, which would cause an invalid array access in add_iaa_compression_mode(). Fix both issues by returning either a valid index or -EINVAL.

CVSS: 7.1 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: May 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 before c77b33b58512708bd5603f48465f018c8b748847; from b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 before d75207465eed20bc9b0daa4a0927de9568996067; from b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 before de16f5bca05cace238d237791ed1b6e9d22dab60; from b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 before 48329301969f6d21b2ef35f678e40f72b59eac94	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 6.8 before 6.12.72; from 6.13 before 6.18.11; from 6.19 before 6.19.1	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c77b33b58512708bd5603f48465f018c8b748847	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d75207465eed20bc9b0daa4a0927de9568996067	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de16f5bca05cace238d237791ed1b6e9d22dab60	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48329301969f6d21b2ef35f678e40f72b59eac94	patch

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