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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2026-31637

rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets rxkad_decrypt_ticket() decrypts the RXKAD response ticket and then parses the buffer as plaintext without checking whether crypto_skcipher_decrypt() succeeded. A malformed RESPONSE can therefore use a non-block-aligned ticket length, make the decrypt operation fail, and still drive the ticket parser with attacker-controlled bytes. Check the decrypt result and abort the connection with RXKADBADTICKET when ticket decryption fails.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea to < 252157d939d179b5d767cb860ff8fa7f8723b67aaffected
  • 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea to < a75b3b361dd481d942c5f259a82d59718a41092caffected
  • 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea to < b3a808cd0790b5075aaa2bc3588edf02cd71d352affected
  • 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea to < 47073aab8a3a5a7b41c9bd37d2a3dcbeeccd6c8aaffected
  • 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea to < a149dcae23309df9de1c3b6b5d468610ef5ab7deaffected
  • 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea to < 22f6258e7b31dba9bf88dce4e3ee7f0f20072e60affected
  • 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea to < 58fcd1b156152613ba00a064a129fb69507ddd7daffected
  • 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea to < fe4447cd95623b1cfacc15f280aab73a6d7340b2affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 2.6.22affected
  • 0 to < 2.6.22unaffected
  • 5.10.258 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.209 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.175 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.135 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.82 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.23 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 6.19.13 to ≤ 6.19.*unaffected
  • 7.0 to ≤ *unaffected

References