CVE-2026-52936
crypto: jitterentropy - replace long-held spinlock with mutex
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
24 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: jitterentropy - replace long-held spinlock with mutex
jent_kcapi_random() serializes the shared jitterentropy state, but it
currently holds a spinlock across the jent_read_entropy() call. That
path performs expensive jitter collection and SHA3 conditioning, so
parallel readers can trigger stalls as contending waiters spin for
the same lock.
To prevent non-preemptible lock hold, replace rng->jent_lock with a
mutex so contended readers sleep instead of spinning on a shared lock
held across expensive entropy generation.
Affected products
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01d798e9feb30212952d4e992801ba6bd6a82351https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18216b8ab6904753eaf31baf453cb02ecd202ba4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c03e6eb98443dc4d6d422a9780034a5b75376b4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec427dc5286da1ed08f2d510e2147a7581b0cb02https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff734dbd9e2432601a6dcd167cfb0bf8a36d1880