CVE-2026-31676

Updated on 25 Apr 2026

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

rxrpc: only handle RESPONSE during service challenge

Only process RESPONSE packets while the service connection is still in RXRPC_CONN_SERVICE_CHALLENGING. Check that state under state_lock before running response verification and security initialization, then use a local secured flag to decide whether to queue the secured-connection work after the state transition. This keeps duplicate or late RESPONSE packets from re-running the setup path and removes the unlocked post-transition state test.

Details

Affected product:
Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux-meta @ 5.4.0

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 11 Planned
Debian 11 cloud Planned
Debian 12 Planned
Debian 13 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 HWE Noble AWS Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned