A Statistical Side-Channel Risk Model for Timing Variability in Lattice-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography

Timing side-channels are an important threat to cryptography that still needs to be addressed in implementations, and the advent of post-quantum cryptography raises this issue because the lattice-based schemes may produce secret-dependent timing variability with the help of complex arithmetic and...

Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-991215)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-991215 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted blkmqschedbiomerge gets the ctx and hctx for the...

EUVD-2024-36062

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-36405

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A control-flow timing lean has been identifi...

A Survey of Post-Quantum Cryptography Support in Cryptographic Libraries

The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant threat to modern cryptographic systems, necessitating the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC. This study evaluates the support for PQC algorithms within nine widely used open-source cryptographic libraries -- OpenSSL, wolfSSL...

SUSE SLES12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2025:02846-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02846-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: -...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-46984

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted blkmqschedbiomerge gets the ctx and hctx for...

A Comparative Performance Evaluation of Kyber, Sntrup761, and FrodoKEM for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Post-quantum cryptography PQC aims to develop cryptographic algorithms that are secure against attacks from quantum computers. This paper compares the leading postquantum cryptographic algorithms, such as Kyber, sntrup761, and FrodoKEM, in terms of their security, performance, and real-world...

Performance and Storage Analysis of CRYSTALS Kyber As a Post Quantum Replacement for RSA and ECC

The steady advancement in quantum computer error correction technology has pushed the current record to 48 stable logical qubits, bringing us closer to machines capable of running Shor's algorithm at scales that threaten RSA and ECC cryptography. While the timeline for developing such quantum...

CVE-2024-37880

The Kyber reference implementation before 9b8d306, when compiled by LLVM Clang through 18.x with some common optimization options, has a timing side channel that allows attackers to recover an ML-KEM 512 secret key in minutes. This occurs because polyfrommsg in poly.c does not prevent Clang from...

Energy-Efficient NTT Sampler for Kyber Benchmarked on FPGA

Kyber is a lattice-based key encapsulation mechanism selected for standardization by the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC project. A critical component of Kyber's key generation process is the sampling of matrix elements from a uniform distribution over the ring Rq . This step is one of the mos...

Complexity of Post-Quantum Cryptography in Embedded Systems and Its Optimization Strategies

With the rapid advancements in quantum computing, traditional cryptographic schemes like Rivest-Shamir-Adleman RSA and elliptic curve cryptography ECC are becoming vulnerable, necessitating the development of quantum-resistant algorithms. The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST ha...

SUSE CVE-2023-1732

When sampling randomness for a shared secret, the implementation of Kyber and FrodoKEM, did not check whether crypto/rand.Read returns an error. In rare deployment cases error thrown by the Read function, this could lead to a predictable shared secret. The tkn20 and blindrsa components did not...

Security update for liboqs, oqs-provider

This update for liboqs, oqs-provider fixes the following issues: This update supplies the new FIPS standardized ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SHL-DSA algorithms. This update liboqs to 0.12.0: This release updates the ML-DSA implementation to the final FIPS 204 version. This release still includes the NIST Roun...

kernel: kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted blkmqschedbiomerge gets the ctx and hctx for the current CPU and passes the hctx to -biomerge. kyberbiomerge then gets the ctx for the current CPU again and uses that to get the...

kernel: kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted blkmqschedbiomerge gets the ctx and hctx for the current CPU and passes the hctx to -biomerge. kyberbiomerge then gets the ctx for the current CPU again and uses that to get the...

Google Chrome Switches to ML-KEM for Post-Quantum Cryptography Defense

Google has announced that it will be switching from KYBER to ML-KEM in its Chrome web browser as part of its ongoing efforts to defend against the risk posed by cryptographically relevant quantum computers CRQCs. "Chrome will offer a key share prediction for hybrid ML-KEM codepoint 0x11EC," David...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-2140)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-2140)

"According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-2120)

"According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: appletouch - initialize work before device registration...