CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64314

Low risk· EPSS 10%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the chacha20poly1305 cipher implementation has a vulnerability due to missing validation of the poly1305 template argument. The chachapoly_create() function assumes the second template argument is always present, which can lead to dereferencing an error pointer in strcmp().

Risk Assessment

An attacker can supply a malformed template, causing an error pointer dereference, potentially leading to system crash (kernel panic) or possibly code execution.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that checks the result of crypto_attr_alg_name() before using it in strcmp().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: chacha20poly1305 - validate poly1305 template argument chachapoly_create() still accepts the compatibility poly1305 parameter in the template name, but it assumes the second template argument is always present and immediately passes it to strcmp(). When the argument is missing, crypto_attr_alg_name() returns an error pointer. Check for that before comparing the name so malformed template instantiations fail with an error instead of dereferencing the error pointer in strcmp(). This matches the surrounding Crypto API template pattern where crypto_attr_alg_name() results are validated before string-specific use.

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