CVE-2026-43044

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The memory allocated for the copy needs to\nbe rounded to DMA cache alignment, as otherwise the hashed key may\ncorrupt neighbouring memory.\n\nThe rounding was performed, but never actually used for the allocation.\nFix this by replacing kmemdup with kmalloc for a larger buffer,\nfollowed by memcpy."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\ncrypto: caam - corregir la corrupci\u00f3n de DMA en claves hmac largas\n\nCuando se suministra una clave m\u00e1s larga que el tama\u00f1o de bloque, se copia y luego se le aplica hash para obtener la clave real. La memoria asignada para la copia necesita ser redondeada a la alineaci\u00f3n de cach\u00e9 DMA, ya que de lo contrario la clave con hash puede corromper la memoria adyacente.\n\nEl redondeo se realiz\u00f3, pero nunca se utiliz\u00f3 realmente para la asignaci\u00f3n. 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