CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31607
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787, CWE-805
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usbip: validate number_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit()
When a USB/IP client receives a RET_SUBMIT response,
usbip_pack_ret_submit() unconditionally overwrites
urb->number_of_packets from the network PDU. This value is
subsequently used as the loop bound in usbip_recv_iso() and
usbip_pad_iso() to iterate over urb->iso_frame_desc[], a flexible
array whose size was fixed at URB allocation time based on the
*original* number_of_packets from the CMD_SUBMIT.
A malicious USB/IP server can set number_of_packets in the response
to a value larger than what was originally submitted, causing a heap
out-of-bounds write when usbip_recv_iso() writes to
urb->iso_frame_desc[i] beyond the allocated region.
KASAN confirmed this with kernel 7.0.0-rc5:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in usbip_recv_iso+0x46a/0x640
Write of size 4 at addr ffff888106351d40 by task vhci_rx/69
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 320-byte region [ffff888106351c00, ffff888106351d40)
The server side (stub_rx.c) and gadget side (vudc_rx.c) already
validate number_of_packets in the CMD_SUBMIT path since commits
c6688ef9f297 ("usbip: fix stub_rx: harden CMD_SUBMIT path to handle
malicious input") and b78d830f0049 ("usbip: fix vudc_rx: harden
CMD_SUBMIT path to handle malicious input"). The server side validates
against USBIP_MAX_ISO_PACKETS because no URB exists yet at that point.
On the client side we have the original URB, so we can use the tighter
bound: the response must not exceed the original number_of_packets.
This mirrors the existing validation of actual_length against
transfer_buffer_length in usbip_recv_xbuff(), which checks the
response value against the original allocation size.
Kelvin Mbogo's series ("usb: usbip: fix integer overflow in
usbip_recv_iso()", v2) hardens the receive-side functions themselves;
this patch complements that work by catching the bad value at its
source -- in usbip_pack_ret_submit() before the overwrite -- and
using the tighter per-URB allocation bound rather than the global
USBIP_MAX_ISO_PACKETS limit.
Fix this by checking rpdu->number_of_packets against
urb->number_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit() before the
overwrite. On violation, clamp to zero so that usbip_recv_iso() and
usbip_pad_iso() safely return early.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.39 < 6.6.136)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.83)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 7.0 < 7.0.1)
Related
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ab833a16a825373aad2ba7d54b572b277e95b71 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/324262c38438255bf6bdbf6342ca47c0badaab76 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e1c4ece08ccdc197177631f111845a2c68eede3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/885c8591784da6314f9aa82fa460ac69f9f79e5f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d155e2d1c4102f74f82a2bf9c016164bb0f7384 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/906f16a836de13fe61f49cdce2f66f2dbd14caf4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/973f2c250289f5bf6cc146b98aa6fdde11fe50d6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce744264b06b97069b3722511ab355738311fee0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef8ebb1c637b4cfb61a9dd2e013376774ee2033b Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19568 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19569 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23224 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24343 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25095 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41236 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31607 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461521 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-31607.json security.access.redhat.com