CVE-2026-31696 (GCVE-0-2026-31696)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 13:55 – Updated: 2026-05-01 13:55
VLAI?
Title
rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing
In rxrpc_preparse(), there are two paths for parsing key payloads: the
XDR path (for large payloads) and the non-XDR path (for payloads <= 28
bytes). While the XDR path (rxrpc_preparse_xdr_rxkad()) correctly
validates the ticket length against AFSTOKEN_RK_TIX_MAX, the non-XDR
path fails to do so.
This allows an unprivileged user to provide a very large ticket length.
When this key is later read via rxrpc_read(), the total
token size (toksize) calculation results in a value that exceeds
AFSTOKEN_LENGTH_MAX, triggering a WARN_ON().
[ 2001.302904] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 2108 at net/rxrpc/key.c:778 rxrpc_read+0x109/0x5c0 [rxrpc]
Fix this by adding a check in the non-XDR parsing path of rxrpc_preparse()
to ensure the ticket length does not exceed AFSTOKEN_RK_TIX_MAX,
bringing it into parity with the XDR parsing logic.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 , < 1fa36cf495b0023e8475d038535c05e4063211e1
(git)
Affected: 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 , < 4458757c020592a3094366e0fb20457383b42f92 (git) Affected: 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 , < ce383ba615339f8eaec646a166d2c2b015bb5ca0 (git) Affected: 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 , < a1be1c9ece26cea69654f28b255ff9a7906b897b (git) Affected: 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 , < ac33733b10b484d666f97688561670afd5861383 (git) |
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