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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-48629" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-03-05T11:18:06.562Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:51:33.070Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48629" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48629.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48629" title: "crypto: qcom-rng - ensure buffer for generate is completely filled" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: qcom-rng - ensure buffer for generate is completely filled\n\nThe generate function in struct rng_alg expects that the destination\nbuffer is completely filled if the function returns 0. qcom_rng_read()\ncan run into a situation where the buffer is partially filled with\nrandomness and the remaining part of the buffer is zeroed since\nqcom_rng_generate() doesn't check the return value. This issue can\nbe reproduced by running the following from libkcapi:\n\n kcapi-rng -b 9000000 \u003e OUTFILE\n\nThe generated OUTFILE will have three huge sections that contain all\nzeros, and this is caused by the code where the test\n'val & PRNG_STATUS_DATA_AVAIL' fails.\n\nLet's fix this issue by ensuring that qcom_rng_read() always returns\nwith a full buffer if the function returns success. Let's also have\nqcom_rng_generate() return the correct value.\n\nHere's some statistics from the ent project\n(https://www.fourmilab.ch/random/) that shows information about the\nquality of the generated numbers:\n\n $ ent -c qcom-random-before\n Value Char Occurrences Fraction\n 0 606748 0.067416\n 1 33104 0.003678\n 2 33001 0.003667\n ...\n 253 � 32883 0.003654\n 254 � 33035 0.003671\n 255 � 33239 0.003693\n\n Total: 9000000 1.000000\n\n Entropy = 7.811590 bits per byte.\n\n Optimum compression would reduce the size\n of this 9000000 byte file by 2 percent.\n\n Chi square distribution for 9000000 samples is 9329962.81, and\n randomly would exceed this value less than 0.01 percent of the\n times.\n\n Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 119.3731 (127.5 = random).\n Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.197293333 (error 1.77 percent).\n Serial correlation coefficient is 0.159130 (totally uncorrelated =\n 0.0).\n\nWithout this patch, the results of the chi-square test is 0.01%, and\nthe numbers are certainly not random according to ent's project page.\nThe results improve with this patch:\n\n $ ent -c qcom-random-after\n Value Char Occurrences Fraction\n 0 35432 0.003937\n 1 35127 0.003903\n 2 35424 0.003936\n ...\n 253 � 35201 0.003911\n 254 � 34835 0.003871\n 255 � 35368 0.003930\n\n Total: 9000000 1.000000\n\n Entropy = 7.999979 bits per byte.\n\n Optimum compression would reduce the size\n of this 9000000 byte file by 0 percent.\n\n Chi square distribution for 9000000 samples is 258.77, and randomly\n would exceed this value 42.24 percent of the times.\n\n Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 127.5006 (127.5 = random).\n Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.141277333 (error 0.01 percent).\n Serial correlation coefficient is 0.000468 (totally uncorrelated =\n 0.0).\n\nThis change was tested on a Nexus 5 phone (msm8974 SoC)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ceec5f5b59882b871a722ca4d49b767a09a4bde9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8e32bbb96c25b7ab29b1894dcd45e0b3b08fd9d"},{"version":"ceec5f5b59882b871a722ca4d49b767a09a4bde9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"184f7bd08ce56f003530fc19f160d54e75bf5c9d"},{"version":"ceec5f5b59882b871a722ca4d49b767a09a4bde9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f9b7b8df17525e464294c916acc8194ce38446b"},{"version":"ceec5f5b59882b871a722ca4d49b767a09a4bde9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab9337c7cb6f875b6286440b1adfbeeef2b2b2bd"},{"version":"ceec5f5b59882b871a722ca4d49b767a09a4bde9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"485995cbc98a4f77cfd4f8ed4dd7ff8ab262964d"},{"version":"ceec5f5b59882b871a722ca4d49b767a09a4bde9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a680b1832ced3b5fa7c93484248fd221ea0d614b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"version":"4.19.236","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.187","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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