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Unscored RUSTSEC-2026-0212

Potentially Incorrect Output of Constant-Time Swap/Select on Aarch64

Published May 26, 2026 · Updated Jul 17, 2026 · Assigned by RUSTSEC

Description

The implementation of constant-time swap and select on aarch64
platforms used a `cmp` instruction in inline assembly to check whether
an 8-bit wide selector was 0. The `cmp` instruction works on 32-bit
registers, which included the unspecified high 24 bits of the `cmp` operand.
Depending on the execution environment the `cmp`
could thus potentially return an incorrect result because its
operand's high bits in the inline assembly were set when Rust expected them to be unset.
This could lead to incorrect results for the constant-time swap and select
operations built from this comparison.

## Impact
In certain circumstances the swap and select instructions on aarch64
platforms returned incorrect results.

## Mitigation
Starting from version `0.0.6`, the selector is compared using a `tst`
instruction with a mask, which only compares the first 8 bits of the
selector.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io libcrux-secrets >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.0.6 0.0.6 RUSTSEC-2026-0212

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