https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:33:15 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2026-64314 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>crypto: chacha20poly1305 - validate poly1305 template argument</p> <p>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().</p> <p>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().</p> <p>This matches the surrounding Crypto API template pattern where crypto_attr_alg_name() results are validated before string-specific use.</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>crypto: chacha20poly1305 - validate poly1305 template argument</p> <p>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().</p> <p>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().</p> <p>This matches the surrounding Crypto API template pattern where crypto_attr_alg_name() results are validated before string-specific use.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2026-64314