High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2026· Updated Aug 27, 2026
CVE-2026-80520
CVE-2026-80520
Description
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.
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