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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Sep 4, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 3, 2026

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 4, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 4, 2026
Last updated Oct 3, 2026

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(7th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2026-80834

GHSA ID

GHSA-4mjx-2pg4-x29v

Source code

No known source code

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