# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31636"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:44:50.637Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:24:00.729Z"
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-2026-31636"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31636.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31636"
title: "rxrpc: fix RESPONSE authenticator parser OOB read"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: fix RESPONSE authenticator parser OOB read\n\nrxgk_verify_authenticator() copies auth_len bytes into a temporary\nbuffer and then passes p + auth_len as the parser limit to\nrxgk_do_verify_authenticator(). Since p is a __be32 *, that inflates the\nparser end pointer by a factor of four and lets malformed RESPONSE\nauthenticators read past the kmalloc() buffer.\n\nDecoded from the original latest-net reproduction logs with\nscripts/decode_stacktrace.sh:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rxgk_verify_response()\nCall Trace:\n dump_stack_lvl() [lib/dump_stack.c:123]\n print_report() [mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482]\n kasan_report() [mm/kasan/report.c:597]\n rxgk_verify_response()\n   [net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1103 net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1167\n    net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1274]\n rxrpc_process_connection()\n   [net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:266 net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:364\n    net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:386]\n process_one_work() [kernel/workqueue.c:3281]\n worker_thread()\n   [kernel/workqueue.c:3353 kernel/workqueue.c:3440]\n kthread() [kernel/kthread.c:436]\n ret_from_fork() [arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164]\n\nAllocated by task 54:\n rxgk_verify_response()\n   [include/linux/slab.h:954 net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1155\n    net/rxrpc/rxgk.c:1274]\n rxrpc_process_connection()\n   [net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:266 net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:364\n    net/rxrpc/conn_event.c:386]\n\nConvert the byte count to __be32 units before constructing the parser\nlimit."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7875f3d9777bd4e9892c4db830571ab8ac2044c0"},{"version":"9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20a188775a9a9982d1987e12660d9b44b40a6c99"},{"version":"9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e3138007887504ee9206d0bfb5acb062c600025"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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