crypto: sun4i-ss - Remove insecure and unused rng_alg
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-74438
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pqhh-48h7-jg73
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2eafecaba1b46bb9774eaf3556619fd5b6a17c1c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee2458f8188732aa53a5d42f56e87bfad288b44e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/306ded31bfa00a69d25823a60d7c797170bfb4f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4b7b9819811c4c51064c3d3d3c02f0be7491707
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c401492e01c7bfd38cf14c94d85c7efafe7d1a25
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c8086d9511189c34dfa3f9e3a03f2bee12f56a5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2c41fa9dd8fc740c489e060b199165771f268d1
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Sources
- CVE-2026-74438 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-74438 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pqhh-48h7-jg73 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-74438 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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