CVE-2026-64314

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's chacha20poly1305 cryptographic module. This vulnerability occurs because the chachapoly_create() function does not properly validate a poly1305 template argument. When this argument is missing, an error pointer is incorrectly passed to a string comparison function, leading to a dereference of the error pointer. This can result in a system crash, causing a Denial of Service (DoS) for affected systems.