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CVE-2026-46075

crypto: atmel-sha204a - Fix potential UAF and memory leak in remove path PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: atmel-sha204a - Fix potential UAF and memory leak in remove path Unregister the hwrng to prevent new ->read() calls and flush the Atmel I2C workqueue before teardown to prevent a potential UAF if a queued callback runs while the device is being removed. Drop the early return to ensure sysfs entries are removed and ->hwrng.priv is freed, preventing a memory leak.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected da001fb651b00e1deeaf24767dd691ae8152a4f5 before 6dbeb0f788582e1ab5dfc3f41994eac0ec88c2b5; affected da001fb651b00e1deeaf24767dd691ae8152a4f5 before c5a45d14234bf26e28a89e3a5dcc08336595cf11; affected da001fb651b00e1deeaf24767dd691ae8152a4f5 before 775c00d87c385b758da9504cf053acea00e2ed40; affected da001fb651b00e1deeaf24767dd691ae8152a4f5 before 1193c12126d39bf986a5a9214827b73707b193ab; affected da001fb651b00e1deeaf24767dd691ae8152a4f5 before 31901371ccd16b42d2f167b1018ba9ae8bd5a6c7; affected da001fb651b00e1deeaf24767dd691ae8152a4f5 before bab1adf3b87e4bfac92c4f5963c63db434d561c1
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.3; unaffected 0 before 5.3; unaffected 6.1.175 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.140 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.86 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.27 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.0.4 through 7.0.*; unaffected 7.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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