CVE-2026-31630
Description
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
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Affected products
10cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 9 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=4.9.1,<6.18.23
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- 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:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
Patches
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/10ebed83f9f6414af4e85bc85ffaeda7effdd874nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a44ce6aa2efb61fe44f2cfab72bb01544bbca272nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/db297c78ce537c9ac96f0eda9b25ad72c8caefa9nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/235b2115de892eab2e107a42efa7a4347baaa80bnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/386c86412608d3449006a318a662cbcd6ca1f668nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/625af53a1564e31bb2df9adc3739df46137f46c1nvd
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