CVE-2026-31696
Published: Fri, 01 May 2026 14:16
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
Details
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.
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fa36cf495b0023e8475d038535c05e4063211e1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4458757c020592a3094366e0fb20457383b42f92
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1be1c9ece26cea69654f28b255ff9a7906b897b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac33733b10b484d666f97688561670afd5861383
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce383ba615339f8eaec646a166d2c2b015bb5ca0
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