CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64529
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-489
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: qat - remove unused character device and IOCTLs
The QAT driver exposes a character device (qat_adf_ctl) with IOCTLs
for device configuration, start, stop, status query and enumeration.
These IOCTLs are not part of any public uAPI header and have no known
in-tree or out-of-tree users. Device lifecycle is already managed via
sysfs.
The ioctl interface also increases the attack surface and is the
subject of a number of bug reports.
Remove the character device, the IOCTL definitions, and the related
data structures (adf_dev_status_info, adf_user_cfg_key_val,
adf_user_cfg_section, adf_user_cfg_ctl_data). Drop the now-unused
adf_cfg_user.h header and strip adf_ctl_drv.c down to the minimal
module_init/module_exit hooks for workqueue, AER, and crypto/compression
algorithm registration.
Clean up leftover dead code that was only reachable from the removed
IOCTL paths: adf_cfg_del_all(), adf_devmgr_verify_id(),
adf_devmgr_get_num_dev(), adf_devmgr_get_dev_by_id(),
adf_get_vf_real_id() and the unused ADF_CFG macros.
Additionally, drop the entry associated to QAT IOCTLs in
ioctl-number.rst.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-489 Active Debug Code weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/071590a44cbc38483fceb1ab943363ec26868e1b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1de076f43e64bf65fbe7280a269c70e0e60518df git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae49dd04dbb11fb73f17f58a982dba128abe83a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6848a6e39cac44fdb7cb88f0f777df62172d1551 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4999664a5ef77bdb0c6e6b935f581ac8ce6b63a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1ea97076bd0a5196290deba172034e480646727 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8ebf008696de1ec08c90d51f94d7e40bd448be1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d237230728c567297f2f98b425d63156ab2ed17f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de2cc38489b629927910b1aeff69bba7bd5c6f1b git.kernel.org