# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31638"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:44:52.122Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:56:01.209Z"
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-2026-31638"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31638.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31638"
title: "rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired\n\nrxrpc_input_packet_on_conn() can process a to-client packet after the\ncurrent client call on the channel has already been torn down.  In that\ncase chan-\u003ecall is NULL, rxrpc_try_get_call() returns NULL and there is\nno reference to drop.\n\nThe client-side implicit-end error path does not account for that and\nunconditionally calls rxrpc_put_call().  This turns a protocol error\npath into a kernel crash instead of rejecting the packet.\n\nOnly drop the call reference if one was actually acquired.  Keep the\nexisting protocol error handling unchanged."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5e6ef4f1017c7f844e305283bbd8875af475e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8f66447448d6c305a51413a67ec8ed26aa7d1dd"},{"version":"5e6ef4f1017c7f844e305283bbd8875af475e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c156aff8a2d4fa0d61db7837641975cf0e5452d"},{"version":"5e6ef4f1017c7f844e305283bbd8875af475e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8299ca146489664e3c0c90a3b8900d8335b1ede4"},{"version":"5e6ef4f1017c7f844e305283bbd8875af475e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9fb09861e2b8d1abfe2efaf260c9f1d30080ea38"},{"version":"5e6ef4f1017c7f844e305283bbd8875af475e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6331f1b24a3e85465f6454e003a3e6c22005a5c5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.82","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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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