High severity · published May 1, 2026
CVE-2026-31696
rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing
7.8
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 3% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
3.17 before 6.6.136; 6.7 before 6.12.84; 6.13 before 6.18.25; 6.19 before 7.0.2; 7.1; 7.1 · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 before 44714dfda386884919ba366411880b6fb3c3efd3; 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 before 41a117dd80371343babc52198d1114e83eb37627; 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 before 9a397aa9b5e53ca63d4d6aefb542832eca389618; 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 before 1fa36cf495b0023e8475d038535c05e4063211e1; 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 before 4458757c020592a3094366e0fb20457383b42f92; 8a7a3eb4ddbe7c7e639170a64adede7cbd5a9247 before ce383ba615339f8eaec646a166d2c2b015bb5ca0; +3 more · source: vendor