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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31641"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:44:56.204Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-20T12:31:55.191Z"
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-2026-31641"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31641.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31641"
title: "rxrpc: Fix RxGK token loading to check bounds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: Fix RxGK token loading to check bounds\n\nrxrpc_preparse_xdr_yfs_rxgk() reads the raw key length and ticket length\nfrom the XDR token as u32 values and passes each through round_up(x, 4)\nbefore using the rounded value for validation and allocation.  When the raw\nlength is \u003e= 0xfffffffd, round_up() wraps to 0, so the bounds check and\nkzalloc both use 0 while the subsequent memcpy still copies the original\n~4 GiB value, producing a heap buffer overflow reachable from an\nunprivileged add_key() call.\n\nFix this by:\n\n (1) Rejecting raw key lengths above AFSTOKEN_GK_KEY_MAX and raw ticket\n     lengths above AFSTOKEN_GK_TOKEN_MAX before rounding, consistent with\n     the caps that the RxKAD path already enforces via AFSTOKEN_RK_TIX_MAX.\n\n (2) Sizing the flexible-array allocation from the validated raw key\n     length via struct_size_t() instead of the rounded value.\n\n (3) Caching the raw lengths so that the later field assignments and\n     memcpy calls do not re-read from the token, eliminating a class of\n     TOCTOU re-parse.\n\nThe control path (valid token with lengths within bounds) is unaffected."
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