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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64311"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:49:43.318Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:53:10.994Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64311"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64311.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64311"
title: "crypto: loongson - Remove broken and unused loongson-rng"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: loongson - Remove broken and unused loongson-rng\n\nThe loongson-rng rng_alg has several vulnerabilities, including not\nproviding forward security, and a use-after-free bug due to the use of\nwait_for_completion_interruptible().\n\nMeanwhile, the rng_alg framework doesn't really have any purpose in the\nfirst place other than to access the software algorithms crypto/drbg.c\nand crypto/jitterentropy.c.  Hardware-specific rng_algs have no\nin-kernel user, and unlike hwrng there's no feed into the actual Linux\nRNG.  As such, there's really no point to this code.  There are of\ncourse other rng_alg drivers that are similarly unused, but they're\nsimilarly in the process of being phased out, e.g.\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/r/20260529193648.18172-1-ebiggers@kernel.org and\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/r/20260529220430.34135-1-ebiggers@kernel.org\n\nGiven that, there's no point in fixing forward these vulnerabilities,\nand it makes much more sense to simply roll back the addition of this\ndriver.  If this platform provides TRNG (not PRNG) functionality, it\ncould make sense to add a hwrng driver, but it would be quite different."
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