Bug 2461542 (CVE-2026-31638) - CVE-2026-31638 kernel: rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired
Summary: CVE-2026-31638 kernel: rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-31638
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-24 15:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-24 21:18 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 15:07:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired

rxrpc_input_packet_on_conn() can process a to-client packet after the
current client call on the channel has already been torn down.  In that
case chan->call is NULL, rxrpc_try_get_call() returns NULL and there is
no reference to drop.

The client-side implicit-end error path does not account for that and
unconditionally calls rxrpc_put_call().  This turns a protocol error
path into a kernel crash instead of rejecting the packet.

Only drop the call reference if one was actually acquired.  Keep the
existing protocol error handling unchanged.


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