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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-09 | Published 2026-05-01 | Updated 2026-05-01 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 (git) before 1fa36cf495b0023e8475d038535c05e4063211e1
affected

8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 (git) before 4458757c020592a3094366e0fb20457383b42f92
affected

8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 (git) before ce383ba615339f8eaec646a166d2c2b015bb5ca0
affected

8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 (git) before a1be1c9ece26cea69654f28b255ff9a7906b897b
affected

8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 (git) before ac33733b10b484d666f97688561670afd5861383
affected

Default status
affected

3.17
affected

Any version before 3.17
unaffected

6.6.136 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.84 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.25 (semver)
unaffected

7.0.2 (semver)
unaffected

7.1-rc1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/1fa36cf495b0023e8475d038535c05e4063211e1

git.kernel.org/...c/4458757c020592a3094366e0fb20457383b42f92

git.kernel.org/...c/ce383ba615339f8eaec646a166d2c2b015bb5ca0

git.kernel.org/...c/a1be1c9ece26cea69654f28b255ff9a7906b897b

git.kernel.org/...c/ac33733b10b484d666f97688561670afd5861383

cve.org (CVE-2026-31696)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-31696)

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