CVE-2026-80520

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovpn: fix NULL dereference when killing missing key

ovpn_crypto_kill_key assumes both crypto slots are populated and dereferences each slot before checking it. That is not guaranteed: a peer can have only one installed key, and the kill path may be asked to remove a key that is not present.

Read each slot once while holding the crypto state lock, check for NULL before looking at key_id, and only replace the slot that actually matches.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux89d3c0e4612afa1c6429ed68d298e35592fbe208 < a47a080d06ee9d94dc6a2da0fc2b9beeeedb92b3affected
LinuxLinux89d3c0e4612afa1c6429ed68d298e35592fbe208 < acf32a5dff082044cf0fd9492f3c10b7357c15eeaffected
LinuxLinux89d3c0e4612afa1c6429ed68d298e35592fbe208 < 41d44ac7a61e2f74453af40d4fe1b82af9ea0adaaffected
LinuxLinux6.16affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.16unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.46 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.10 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

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