CVE-2026-64314

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's chacha20poly1305 cryptographic module. This vulnerability occurs because the chachapolycreate function does not properly validate a poly1305 template argument. When this argument is missing, an error pointer is incorrectly passed to a string comparison...

CVE-2026-64314 crypto: chacha20poly1305 - validate poly1305 template argument

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: chacha20poly1305 - validate poly1305 template argument chachapolycreate still accepts the compatibility poly1305 parameter in the template name, but it assumes the second template argument is always present and immediatel...