CVE-2026-74402 json
crypto: atmel-sha204a - fix blocking and non-blocking rng logic
published 2026-08-15 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-17 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-59549
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: atmel-sha204a - fix blocking and non-blocking rng logic
The blocking and non-blocking paths were failing to provide valid entropy due to improper buffer management. Reading the buffer starting from byte 1, only fetch the 32 bytes of random data from the return message.
Tested on an Atmel SHA204A device.
Before (here for blocking), tests showed repeatedly reading reduced bytes. $ head -c 32 /dev/hwrng | hexdump -C 00000000 02 28 85 b3 47 40 f2 ee 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.(..G@..........| 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000020
After, the result will be similar to the following: $ head -c 32 /dev/hwrng | hexdump -C 00000000 5a fc 3f 13 14 68 fe 06 68 0a bd 04 83 6e 09 69 |Z.?..h..h....n.i| 00000010 75 ff cf 87 10 84 3b c9 c1 df ae eb 45 53 4c c3 |u.....;.....ESL.| 00000020
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.10.261, 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
- linux Debian 12 6.1.180-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.100-1
- linux Debian 14 7.1.5-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-74402
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-198.208
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-147.147
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-38.38
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1117.124
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1067.70
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1014.14
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1118.128
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1071.79
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-74402
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1.159998.21.42
- kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24550-1SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/76269a91fd9560c5f03c3e59421a0329e39a6661 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9039bb4f238474379221fc933c34f19f0cba501b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4aa6141ff03ec82eed6fcef814300fb855ce5d8 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e833e865e4944ba75120db534bd931db6cf677d3 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fa302bbc62dec7cb6339c9494e0e3f2f884afeb commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/aac63bbea8fd5a34f1a4305cb73369068f952d32 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/938ae1fb4a8f5db43b62b6206d409efbf317f0d9 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/319400fc5ee15db5793aa45f854968141326effc commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-74402 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: crypto: atmel-sha204a - fix blocking and non-blocking rng logic
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/76269a91fd9560c5f03c3e59421a0329e39a6661
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9039bb4f238474379221fc933c34f19f0cba501b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d4aa6141ff03ec82eed6fcef814300fb855ce5d8
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e833e865e4944ba75120db534bd931db6cf677d3
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/2fa302bbc62dec7cb6339c9494e0e3f2f884afeb
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/aac63bbea8fd5a34f1a4305cb73369068f952d32
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/938ae1fb4a8f5db43b62b6206d409efbf317f0d9
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/319400fc5ee15db5793aa45f854968141326effc
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-74402
- NVD CVE-2026-74402
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