Bug 2461545 (CVE-2026-31630) - CVE-2026-31630 kernel: rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output
Summary: CVE-2026-31630 kernel: rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-31630
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 15:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-24 20:48 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 15:07:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output

The AF_RXRPC procfs helpers format local and remote socket addresses into
fixed 50-byte stack buffers with "%pISpc".

That is too small for the longest current-tree IPv6-with-port form the
formatter can produce. In lib/vsprintf.c, the compressed IPv6 path uses a
dotted-quad tail not only for v4mapped addresses, but also for ISATAP
addresses via ipv6_addr_is_isatap().

As a result, a case such as

  [ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:0:5efe:255.255.255.255]:65535

is possible with the current formatter. That is 50 visible characters, so
51 bytes including the trailing NUL, which does not fit in the existing
char[50] buffers used by net/rxrpc/proc.c.

Size the buffers from the formatter's maximum textual form and switch the
call sites to scnprintf().

Changes since v1:
- correct the changelog to cite the actual maximum current-tree case
  explicitly
- frame the proof around the ISATAP formatting path instead of the earlier
  mapped-v4 example


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