rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets rxkad_decrypt_ticket() decrypts the RXKAD response ticket and then parses the buffer as plaintext without checking whether crypto_skcipher_decrypt() succeeded. A malformed RESPONSE can therefore use a non-block-aligned ticket length, make the decrypt operation fail, and still drive the ticket parser with attacker-controlled bytes. Check the decrypt result and abort the connection with RXKADBADTICKET when ticket decryption fails.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets rxkad_decrypt_ticket() decrypts the RXKAD response ticket and then parses the buffer as plaintext without checking whether crypto_skcipher_decrypt() succeeded. A malformed RESPONSE can therefore use a non-block-aligned ticket length, make the decrypt operation fail, and still drive the ticket parser with attacker-controlled bytes. Check the decrypt result and abort the connection with RXKADBADTICKET when ticket decryption fails.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f6258e7b31dba9bf88dce4e3ee7f0f20072e60
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/252157d939d179b5d767cb860ff8fa7f8723b67a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47073aab8a3a5a7b41c9bd37d2a3dcbeeccd6c8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58fcd1b156152613ba00a064a129fb69507ddd7d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a149dcae23309df9de1c3b6b5d468610ef5ab7de
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a75b3b361dd481d942c5f259a82d59718a41092c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3a808cd0790b5075aaa2bc3588edf02cd71d352
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe4447cd95623b1cfacc15f280aab73a6d7340b2
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/31xxx/CVE-2026-31637.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31637