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USN-8686-1: openCryptoki vulnerabilities

USN-8686-1: openCryptoki vulnerabilities

Ubuntu August 27, 2026

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 )

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 )

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 )

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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