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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2026-31631 json

rxrpc: Fix buffer overread in rxgk_do_verify_authenticator()

published 2026-04-24 6 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2026-25524

cvss
8.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc: Fix buffer overread in rxgk_do_verify_authenticator()

Fix rxgk_do_verify_authenticator() to check the buffer size before checking the nonce.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.18.23, 6.19.13, 7.0
  • linux Debian 14 6.19.13-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31631

  • linux-nvidia Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1006.6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31631

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-31631 updated cvss 6.3

kernel: rxrpc: Fix buffer overread in rxgk_do_verify_authenticator()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
24 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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