--- id: CVE-2026-31607 title: |- 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 ur… summary: |- 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 ur… severity: critical cvss: 9.8 cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H' cwe: - CWE-787 - CWE-805 vendor: linux product: linux_kernel affected: - 'linux_kernel >= 2.6.39, < 6.6.136' - 'linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.83' - 'linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.24' - 'linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 6.19.14' - 'linux_kernel >= 7.0, < 7.0.1' patched: - linux_kernel 7.0.1 published: '2026-04-24' updated: '2026-07-20' source: NVD sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31607' references: - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ab833a16a825373aad2ba7d54b572b277e95b71' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/324262c38438255bf6bdbf6342ca47c0badaab76' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e1c4ece08ccdc197177631f111845a2c68eede3' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/885c8591784da6314f9aa82fa460ac69f9f79e5f' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d155e2d1c4102f74f82a2bf9c016164bb0f7384' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/906f16a836de13fe61f49cdce2f66f2dbd14caf4' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/973f2c250289f5bf6cc146b98aa6fdde11fe50d6' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce744264b06b97069b3722511ab355738311fee0' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef8ebb1c637b4cfb61a9dd2e013376774ee2033b' label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19568' label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19569' label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23224' label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24343' label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25095' label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41236' label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31607' label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c - url: 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461521' label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c - url: >- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-31607.json label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c tags: - nvd epss: 0.00442 epssPercentile: 0.35773 ingestedAt: '2026-07-20T12:38:40.920Z' --- ## Overview 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 - `linux_kernel >= 2.6.39, < 6.6.136` - `linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.83` - `linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.24` - `linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 6.19.14` - `linux_kernel >= 7.0, < 7.0.1` ## Remediation Upgrade past the affected range: - `linux_kernel 7.0.1`