CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80834
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: sun8i-ce - Remove crypto_rng interface
Since the crypto_rng interface for hardware PRNGs is unused and is
redundant with hwrng and the actual Linux RNG, it's being phased out.
Most drivers for it were already removed. Go ahead and remove the
sun8i-ce support which is one of the only remaining ones.
Note that the sun8i-ce support for hwrng remains in place. That is the
interface that actually matters.
As usual for crypto_rng, this driver was also buggy: its ->generate()
function had a use-after-free vulnerability due to using
wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() without handling shutting
down the DMA operation if a signal is sent. There's no point in fixing
this separately only to remove the code anyway, so this commit is marked
with Fixes and Cc stable.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/011556f71d094da61379ae3672692cae2795304e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1017f987c5f0841f00408a78f947990c9d84b346 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19588f78db582ba4c47b4001bb27f39bb19dc432 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c8fa2299789282db1aac566a60c2012a5ba8ea8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bb9e6060710eb7b59491d9826169190297adace git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e4f9110aba3127024646ef7a8999dcfcc03f516 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b69af40720cabd13da763575022a3d4430b02dfc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce641e75e0fc912acd4bf661367617561bc7c63f git.kernel.org