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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31696"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T13:55:57.485Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:17:54.785Z"
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-2026-31696"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31696.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31696"
title: "rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing\n\nIn rxrpc_preparse(), there are two paths for parsing key payloads: the\nXDR path (for large payloads) and the non-XDR path (for payloads \u003c= 28\nbytes). While the XDR path (rxrpc_preparse_xdr_rxkad()) correctly\nvalidates the ticket length against AFSTOKEN_RK_TIX_MAX, the non-XDR\npath fails to do so.\n\nThis allows an unprivileged user to provide a very large ticket length.\nWhen this key is later read via rxrpc_read(), the total\ntoken size (toksize) calculation results in a value that exceeds\nAFSTOKEN_LENGTH_MAX, triggering a WARN_ON().\n\n[ 2001.302904] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 2108 at net/rxrpc/key.c:778 rxrpc_read+0x109/0x5c0 [rxrpc]\n\nFix this by adding a check in the non-XDR parsing path of rxrpc_preparse()\nto ensure the ticket length does not exceed AFSTOKEN_RK_TIX_MAX,\nbringing it into parity with the XDR parsing logic."
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