CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-31407

HighCVSS 7.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, missing netlink attribute validation in netfilter conntrack for SCTP and ctnetlink. An attacker can cause an out-of-bounds read (slab-out-of-bounds) by supplying an invalid SCTP state or direction value.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could cause a system crash or data leak via out-of-bounds read of the nf_conn object.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that includes proper netlink policy validations for conntrack.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations Hyunwoo Kim reports out-of-bounds access in sctp and ctnetlink. These attributes are used by the kernel without any validation. Extend the netlink policies accordingly. Quoting the reporter: nlattr_to_sctp() assigns the user-supplied CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE value directly to ct->proto.sctp.state without checking that it is within the valid range. [..] and: ... with exp->dir = 100, the access at ct->master->tuplehash[100] reads 5600 bytes past the start of a 320-byte nf_conn object, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read confirmed by UBSAN.

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