Bug 2461510 (CVE-2026-31636) - CVE-2026-31636 kernel: rxrpc: fix RESPONSE authenticator parser OOB read
Summary: CVE-2026-31636 kernel: rxrpc: fix RESPONSE authenticator parser OOB read
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-31636
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-04-24 15:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-28 11:51 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 15:05:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc: fix RESPONSE authenticator parser OOB read

rxgk_verify_authenticator() copies auth_len bytes into a temporary
buffer and then passes p + auth_len as the parser limit to
rxgk_do_verify_authenticator(). Since p is a __be32 *, that inflates the
parser end pointer by a factor of four and lets malformed RESPONSE
authenticators read past the kmalloc() buffer.

Decoded from the original latest-net reproduction logs with
scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rxgk_verify_response()
Call Trace:
 dump_stack_lvl() [lib/dump_stack.c:123]
 print_report() [mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482]
 kasan_report() [mm/kasan/report.c:597]
 rxgk_verify_response()
   [net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1103 net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1167
    net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1274]
 rxrpc_process_connection()
   [net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:266 net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:364
    net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:386]
 process_one_work() [kernel/workqueue.c:3281]
 worker_thread()
   [kernel/workqueue.c:3353 kernel/workqueue.c:3440]
 kthread() [kernel/kthread.c:436]
 ret_from_fork() [arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164]

Allocated by task 54:
 rxgk_verify_response()
   [include/linux/slab.h:954 net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1155
    net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1274]
 rxrpc_process_connection()
   [net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:266 net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:364
    net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:386]

Convert the byte count to __be32 units before constructing the parser
limit.


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