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CVE-2024-35875

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2024
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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x86/coco: Require seeding RNG with RDRAND on CoCo systems

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/coco: Require seeding RNG with RDRAND on CoCo systems There are few uses of CoCo that don't rely on working cryptography and hence a working RNG. Unfortunately, the CoCo threat model means that the VM host cannot be trusted and may actively work against guests to extract secrets or manipulate computation. Since a malicious host can modify or observe nearly all inputs to guests, the only remaining source of entropy for CoCo guests is RDRAND. If RDRAND is broken -- due to CPU hardware fault -- the RNG as a whole is meant to gracefully continue on gathering entropy from other sources, but since there aren't other sources on CoCo, this is catastrophic. This is mostly a concern at boot time when initially seeding the RNG, as after that the consequences of a broken RDRAND are much more theoretical. So, try at boot to seed the RNG using 256 bits of RDRAND output. If this fails, panic(). This will also trigger if the system is booted without RDRAND, as RDRAND is essential for a safe CoCo boot. Add this deliberately to be "just a CoCo x86 driver feature" and not part of the RNG itself. Many device drivers and platforms have some desire to contribute something to the RNG, and add_device_randomness() is specifically meant for this purpose. Any driver can call it with seed data of any quality, or even garbage quality, and it can only possibly make the quality of the RNG better or have no effect, but can never make it worse. Rather than trying to build something into the core of the RNG, consider the particular CoCo issue just a CoCo issue, and therefore separate it all out into driver (well, arch/platform) code. [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
d8aa7eea78a1401cce39b3bb61ead0150044a3dfaffectedgit22943e4fe4b3a2dcbadc3d38d5bf840bbdbfe374UnavailableNone listed
d8aa7eea78a1401cce39b3bb61ead0150044a3dfaffectedgit453b5f2dec276c1bb4ea078bf8c0da57ee4627e5UnavailableNone listed
d8aa7eea78a1401cce39b3bb61ead0150044a3dfaffectedgit08044b08b37528b82f70a87576c692b4e4b7716eUnavailableNone listed
d8aa7eea78a1401cce39b3bb61ead0150044a3dfaffectedgit99485c4c026f024e7cb82da84c7951dbe3deb584UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.15affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.15UnavailableNone listed
6.1.85unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.26unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.8.5unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.8.*None listed
6.9unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed