When a kerberos 5 ticket is being decoded so that it can be loaded into an rxrpc-type key, there are several places in which the length of a variable-length field is checked to make sure that it's not going to overrun the available data - but the data is padded to the nearest four-byte boundary and the code doesn't check for this extra. This could lead to the size-remaining variable wrapping and the data pointer going over the end of the buffer. 石磊 discovered that the RxRPC Kerberos 5 ticket handling code in the Linux kernel did not properly verify metadata. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.