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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31607" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:29.468Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:56:00.074Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31607" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31607.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31607" title: "usbip: validate number_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusbip: validate number_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit()\n\nWhen a USB/IP client receives a RET_SUBMIT response,\nusbip_pack_ret_submit() unconditionally overwrites\nurb-\u003enumber_of_packets from the network PDU. This value is\nsubsequently used as the loop bound in usbip_recv_iso() and\nusbip_pad_iso() to iterate over urb-\u003eiso_frame_desc[], a flexible\narray whose size was fixed at URB allocation time based on the\n*original* number_of_packets from the CMD_SUBMIT.\n\nA malicious USB/IP server can set number_of_packets in the response\nto a value larger than what was originally submitted, causing a heap\nout-of-bounds write when usbip_recv_iso() writes to\nurb-\u003eiso_frame_desc[i] beyond the allocated region.\n\nKASAN confirmed this with kernel 7.0.0-rc5:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in usbip_recv_iso+0x46a/0x640\n Write of size 4 at addr ffff888106351d40 by task vhci_rx/69\n\n The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n allocated 320-byte region [ffff888106351c00, ffff888106351d40)\n\nThe server side (stub_rx.c) and gadget side (vudc_rx.c) already\nvalidate number_of_packets in the CMD_SUBMIT path since commits\nc6688ef9f297 (\"usbip: fix stub_rx: harden CMD_SUBMIT path to handle\nmalicious input\") and b78d830f0049 (\"usbip: fix vudc_rx: harden\nCMD_SUBMIT path to handle malicious input\"). The server side validates\nagainst USBIP_MAX_ISO_PACKETS because no URB exists yet at that point.\nOn the client side we have the original URB, so we can use the tighter\nbound: the response must not exceed the original number_of_packets.\n\nThis mirrors the existing validation of actual_length against\ntransfer_buffer_length in usbip_recv_xbuff(), which checks the\nresponse value against the original allocation size.\n\nKelvin Mbogo's series (\"usb: usbip: fix integer overflow in\nusbip_recv_iso()\", v2) hardens the receive-side functions themselves;\nthis patch complements that work by catching the bad value at its\nsource -- in usbip_pack_ret_submit() before the overwrite -- and\nusing the tighter per-URB allocation bound rather than the global\nUSBIP_MAX_ISO_PACKETS limit.\n\nFix this by checking rpdu-\u003enumber_of_packets against\nurb-\u003enumber_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit() before the\noverwrite. On violation, clamp to zero so that usbip_recv_iso() and\nusbip_pad_iso() safely return early." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"324262c38438255bf6bdbf6342ca47c0badaab76"},{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"973f2c250289f5bf6cc146b98aa6fdde11fe50d6"},{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce744264b06b97069b3722511ab355738311fee0"},{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"885c8591784da6314f9aa82fa460ac69f9f79e5f"},{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d155e2d1c4102f74f82a2bf9c016164bb0f7384"},{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"906f16a836de13fe61f49cdce2f66f2dbd14caf4"},{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef8ebb1c637b4cfb61a9dd2e013376774ee2033b"},{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e1c4ece08ccdc197177631f111845a2c68eede3"},{"version":"1325f85fa49f57df034869de430f7c302ae23109","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ab833a16a825373aad2ba7d54b572b277e95b71"},{"version":"d9638d9236eed035a575feddec61d036dacc2676","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ca7d3501b7a287c18b5b470e871d3029b0f4842a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1ce528277e1a66856ed3f7526c1e3458c0ed4a70","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"db898d0c5c493ce4177d5e1d3a953e079a56a24b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5aa02704b9ee67c5b2ee26d54c5f4eb99e93ba9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2.6.32.37","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.33"},{"version":"2.6.33.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.34"},{"version":"2.6.34.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"},{"version":"2.6.35.13","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.36"},{"version":"2.6.38.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.39"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.39","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.39"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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