{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31424 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-31424 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 13 Apr 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-31424 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-31424 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 13 Apr 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31424 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31424/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31424/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-31424","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31424/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-31424","record":{"aliases":["AZL-82697","BELL-CVE-2026-31424","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31424","GHSA-9r6p-6xq4-mrq9","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-31424","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-31424","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-31424","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-31424","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-31424","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31424"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel netfilter","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel netfilter subsystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash via ARP packet processing.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: x_tables: restrict xt_check_match/xt_check_target extensions for NFPROTO_ARP\n\nWeiming Shi says:\n\nxt_match and xt_target structs registered with NFPROTO_UNSPEC can be\nloaded by any protocol family through nft_compat. When such a\nmatch/target sets .hooks to restrict which hooks it may run on, the\nbitmask uses NF_INET_* constants. This is only correct for families\nwhose hook layout matches NF_INET_*: IPv4, IPv6, INET, and bridge\nall share the same five hooks (PRE_ROUTING ... POST_ROUTING).\n\nARP only has three hooks (IN=0, OUT=1, FORWARD=2) with different\nsemantics. Because NF_ARP_OUT == 1 == NF_INET_LOCAL_IN, the .hooks\nvalidation silently passes for the wrong reasons, allowing matches to\nrun on ARP chains where the hook assumptions (e.g. state-\u003ein being\nset on input hooks) do not hold. This leads to NULL pointer\ndereferences; xt_devgroup is one concrete example:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000044: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000220-0x0000000000000227]\n RIP: 0010:devgroup_mt+0xff/0x350\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  nft_match_eval (net/netfilter/nft_compat.c:407)\n  nft_do_chain (net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:285)\n  nft_do_chain_arp (net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:61)\n  nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:623)\n  arp_xmit (net/ipv4/arp.c:666)\n  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nFix it by restricting arptables to NFPROTO_ARP extensions only.\nNote that arptables-legacy only supports:\n\n- arpt_CLASSIFY\n- arpt_mangle\n- arpt_MARK\n\nthat provide explicit NFPROTO_ARP match/target declarations.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"netfilter: x_tables: restrict xt_check_match/xt_check_target extensions for NFPROTO_ARP","id":"CVE-2026-31424","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"rds: ib: reject FRMR registration before IB connection is established","id":"CVE-2026-31425"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net/sched: sch_hfsc: fix divide-by-zero in rtsc_min()","id":"CVE-2026-31423"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-04-13","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel netfilter subsystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash via ARP packet processing.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31424/"}