USN-8957-1: authd vulnerability
USN-8957-1
Summary
It was discovered that primitive decoders in openCryptoki produced integer underflows when the encoded length was zero. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger out-of-bounds reads. (CVE-2026-40253)
It was discovered that openCryptoki incorrectly handled symlinks. An attacker in the token-group could possibly use this issue to achieve privilege escalation or access sensitive information. (CVE-2026-23893)
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