CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80833

Low risk· EPSS 5%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the crypto_rng interface was removed from the sun8i-ss driver because it was unused and redundant. The driver had a use-after-free vulnerability in its ->generate() function and a buffer overread bug in the line memcpy(ctx->seed, d + dlen, ctx->slen). hwrng support remains.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerabilities could lead to data confidentiality breach (out-of-bounds read) and memory corruption, potentially allowing a local attacker to escalate privileges or cause a crash.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version with the fix to eliminate these vulnerabilities.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: sun8i-ss - 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-ss support which is one of the only remaining ones. 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. Also, it had a buffer overread bug in the line 'memcpy(ctx->seed, d + dlen, ctx->slen);'. There's no point in fixing these bugs separately only to remove the code anyway, so this commit is marked with Fixes and Cc stable.

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