Freed-memory access via interrupted DMA generation
Published Sep 4, 2026 · Updated Sep 4, 2026
Use-after-free in Linux 5.10 through 7.2.2 allows attackers to access freed memory during sun8i-ce PRNG generation. The sun8i-ce crypto_rng generate() path waits interruptibly for DMA completion but does not stop the DMA operation when a signal ends the wait. Reachability requires sun8i-ce PRNG support on compatible hardware and a signal during an in-flight request; the source does not establish code execution.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Linux 5.10 through 7.2.2 allows attackers to access freed memory during sun8i-ce PRNG generation. The sun8i-ce crypto_rng generate() path waits interruptibly for DMA completion but does not stop the DMA operation when a signal ends the wait. Reachability requires sun8i-ce PRNG support on compatible hardware and a signal during an in-flight request; the source does not establish code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-80834
- Published
- Sep 4, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 4, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-416
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
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- Sep 4, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 4, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.10
- Affected versionversion=5eb7e946888493959b1c393144934afcbcd0cfc1 <011556f71d094da61379ae3672692cae2795304e
- Affected versionversion=5eb7e946888493959b1c393144934afcbcd0cfc1 <1017f987c5f0841f00408a78f947990c9d84b346
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