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CVE-2026-31638

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
24/04/2026
Last modified:
27/04/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired<br /> <br /> rxrpc_input_packet_on_conn() can process a to-client packet after the<br /> current client call on the channel has already been torn down. In that<br /> case chan-&gt;call is NULL, rxrpc_try_get_call() returns NULL and there is<br /> no reference to drop.<br /> <br /> The client-side implicit-end error path does not account for that and<br /> unconditionally calls rxrpc_put_call(). This turns a protocol error<br /> path into a kernel crash instead of rejecting the packet.<br /> <br /> Only drop the call reference if one was actually acquired. Keep the<br /> existing protocol error handling unchanged.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.2.1 (including) 6.6.135 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.7 (including) 6.12.82 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.13 (including) 6.18.23 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.19 (including) 6.19.13 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

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