crypto: sun4i-ss - Remove insecure and unused rng_alg (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74438
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 9 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: sun4i-ss - Remove insecure and unused rng_alg Remove sun4i_ss_rng, as it is insecure and unused: - It has multiple vulnerabilities. sun4i_ss_prng_seed() is missing locking and has a buffer overflow. sun4i_ss_prng_generate() fails to fill the entire buffer with cryptographic random bytes, because it rounds the destination length down and also doesn't actually wait for the hardware to be ready before pulling bytes from it. - No user of this code is known. It's usable only theoretically via the "rng" algorithm type of AF_ALG. But userspace actually just uses the actual Linux RNG (/dev/random etc) instead. And rng_algs don't contribute entropy to the actual Linux RNG either. (This may have been confused with hwrng, which does contribute entropy.) The sun4i_ss_prng_seed() buffer overflow was reported by Tianchu Chen and discovered by Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine There's no point in fixing all these vulnerabilities individually when this is unused code, so let's just remove it.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b8ae5c7387ad075ee61e8c8774ce2bca46bc9236 < 2eafecaba1b46bb9774eaf3556619fd5b6a17c1c ; affected b8ae5c7387ad075ee61e8c8774ce2bca46bc9236 < ee2458f8188732aa53a5d42f56e87bfad288b44e ; affected b8ae5c7387ad075ee61e8c8774ce2bca46bc9236 < 306ded31bfa00a69d25823a60d7c797170bfb4f8 ; affected b8ae5c7387ad075ee61e8c8774ce2bca46bc9236 < e4b7b9819811c4c51064c3d3d3c02f0be7491707 ; affected b8ae5c7387ad075ee61e8c8774ce2bca46bc9236 < c401492e01c7bfd38cf14c94d85c7efafe7d1a25 ; affected b8ae5c7387ad075ee61e8c8774ce2bca46bc9236 < 9c8086d9511189c34dfa3f9e3a03f2bee12f56a5
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.14 ; unaffected 0 < 4.14 ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.97 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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