CVE-2026-31630CWE-121

CVE-2026-31630

High · published April 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output

The AF_RXRPC procfs helpers format local and remote socket addresses into

fixed 50-byte stack buffers with "%pISpc".

That is too small for the longest current-tree IPv6-with-port form the

formatter can produce. In lib/vsprintf.c, the compressed IPv6 path uses a

dotted-quad tail not only for v4mapped addresses, but also for ISATAP

addresses via ipv6_addr_is_isatap().

As a result, a case such as

[ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:0:5efe:255.255.255.255]:65535

is possible with the current formatter. That is 50 visible characters, so

51 bytes including the trailing NUL, which does not fit in the existing

char[50] buffers used by net/rxrpc/proc.c.

Size the buffers from the formatter's maximum textual form and switch the

call sites to scnprintf().

Changes since v1:

- correct the changelog to cite the actual maximum current-tree case

explicitly

- frame the proof around the ISATAP formatting path instead of the earlier

mapped-v4 example

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00184 · 7.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-04-24T19:16Z
Affected products (10)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.9.1, < 6.18.236.18.23
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.136.19.13
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References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 APR 14:44Z
    rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output
    cvelistv5