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Unscored RUSTSEC-2026-0329

Auto-Reseeding HMAC-DRBG could panic for some output lengths

Published Aug 3, 2026 · Updated Oct 7, 2026 · Assigned by RUSTSEC

Description

The automatically reseeding implementations of HMAC-DRBG would panic if called with a desired non-zero output length cleanly divisible by `65_536`, the maximum number of output bytes that can be generated before reseeding has to happen.

# Impact

An application relying on `libcrux-hmac-drgb` to provide randomness of byte length a non-zero integer multiple of `65_536` in a single call to `fill_bytes` would panic.

Any calls with output buffer lengths not cleanly divisible by `65_536` are not affected.

# Mitigation

With release the release of version `0.0.2` of `libcrux-hmac-drbg` this bug has been fixed and reseeding DRBG implementations can be used with arbitrary output lengths.

We recommend users upgrade to `libcrux-hmac-drbg` version `0.0.2`.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io libcrux-hmac-drbg >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.0.2 0.0.2 RUSTSEC-2026-0329

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