CVE-2026-31696

HIGH

rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (14)
Linux/Linux < 3.17
Linux/Linux 3.17
Linux/Linux 6.12.84 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.25 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.136 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 7.0.2 - 7.0.*
Linux/Linux 7.1-rc1
Linux/Linux 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 - 1fa36cf495b0023e8475d038535c05e4063211e1
Linux/Linux 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 - 4458757c020592a3094366e0fb20457383b42f92
Linux/Linux 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 - a1be1c9ece26cea69654f28b255ff9a7906b897b
... and 4 more
Published May 01, 2026
Tracked Since May 01, 2026