{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31426 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-31426 is a high-severity use after free 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-2026-31426 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-31426 is a high-severity use after free 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-2026-31426 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-2026-31426/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31426/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-31426","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31426/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-31426","record":{"aliases":["AZL-82712","BELL-CVE-2026-31426","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31426","GHSA-pj54-f2h3-x57g","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-31426","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-31426","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-31426","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-31426","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-31426","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31426"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel ACPI EC driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute code via unprivileged sysfs reads.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPI: EC: clean up handlers on probe failure in acpi_ec_setup()\n\nWhen ec_install_handlers() returns -EPROBE_DEFER on reduced-hardware\nplatforms, it has already started the EC and installed the address\nspace handler with the struct acpi_ec pointer as handler context.\nHowever, acpi_ec_setup() propagates the error without any cleanup.\n\nThe caller acpi_ec_add() then frees the struct acpi_ec for non-boot\ninstances, leaving a dangling handler context in ACPICA.\n\nAny subsequent AML evaluation that accesses an EC OpRegion field\ndispatches into acpi_ec_space_handler() with the freed pointer,\ncausing a use-after-free:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mutex_lock (kernel/locking/mutex.c:289)\n Write of size 8 at addr ffff88800721de38 by task init/1\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  mutex_lock (kernel/locking/mutex.c:289)\n  acpi_ec_space_handler (drivers/acpi/ec.c:1362)\n  acpi_ev_address_space_dispatch (drivers/acpi/acpica/evregion.c:293)\n  acpi_ex_access_region (drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c:246)\n  acpi_ex_field_datum_io (drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c:509)\n  acpi_ex_extract_from_field (drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c:700)\n  acpi_ex_read_data_from_field (drivers/acpi/acpica/exfield.c:327)\n  acpi_ex_resolve_node_to_value (drivers/acpi/acpica/exresolv.c:392)\n  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 1:\n  acpi_ec_alloc (drivers/acpi/ec.c:1424)\n  acpi_ec_add (drivers/acpi/ec.c:1692)\n\n Freed by task 1:\n  kfree (mm/slub.c:6876)\n  acpi_ec_add (drivers/acpi/ec.c:1751)\n\nThe bug triggers on reduced-hardware EC platforms (ec-\u003egpe \u003c 0)\nwhen the GPIO IRQ provider defers probing. Once the stale handler\nexists, any unprivileged sysfs read that causes AML to touch an\nEC OpRegion (battery, thermal, backlight) exercises the dangling\npointer.\n\nFix this by calling ec_remove_handlers() in the error path of\nacpi_ec_setup() before clearing first_ec. ec_remove_handlers()\nchecks each EC_FLAGS_* bit before acting, so it is safe to call\nregardless of how far ec_install_handlers() progressed:\n\n  -ENODEV  (handler not installed): only calls acpi_ec_stop()\n  -EPROBE_DEFER (handler installed): removes handler, stops EC","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":"ACPI: EC: clean up handlers on probe failure in acpi_ec_setup()","id":"CVE-2026-31426","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix use of uninitialized rtp_addr in process_sdp","id":"CVE-2026-31427"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"rds: ib: reject FRMR registration before IB connection is established","id":"CVE-2026-31425"},"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":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel ACPI EC driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute code via unprivileged sysfs reads.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31426/"}