CVE-2026-64311

crypto: loongson - Remove broken and unused loongson-rng

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 25, 2026 at 08:49 AM UTC
Updated: October 24, 2026 at 01:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: loongson - Remove broken and unused loongson-rng The loongson-rng rng_alg has several vulnerabilities, including not providing forward security, and a use-after-free bug due to the use of wait_for_completion_interruptible(). Meanwhile, the rng_alg framework doesn't really have any purpose in the first place other than to access the software algorithms crypto/drbg.c and crypto/jitterentropy.c. Hardware-specific rng_algs have no in-kernel user, and unlike hwrng there's no feed into the actual Linux RNG. As such, there's really no point to this code. There are of course other rng_alg drivers that are similarly unused, but they're similarly in the process of being phased out, e.g. https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] and https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Given that, there's no point in fixing forward these vulnerabilities, and it makes much more sense to simply roll back the addition of this driver. If this platform provides TRNG (not PRNG) functionality, it could make sense to add a hwrng driver, but it would be quite different.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.18 ≤ v < 6.18.396.19 ≤ v < 7.1.46.18766b2d724c8df071031412eea902b566a0049c31
Vendor states this is fixed in 037ec8353711c79353b12d5634e0c9ff363a9efa (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 43de8b9f01b7dd2f6ca5360c6bf2f203c02288dc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in af3d1bb9a09daf928fc3f173689fb7904d6a6d4f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.39 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-416

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