{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31428 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-31428 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-2026-31428 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-31428 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-2026-31428 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-2026-31428/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31428/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-31428","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31428/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-31428","record":{"aliases":["AZL-82724","BELL-CVE-2026-31428","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31428","GHSA-mp33-36gg-v9h7","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-31428","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-31428","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-31428","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-31428","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-31428","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31428"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can read uninitialized kernel heap memory via the NFLOG netlink socket due to missing padding initialization in packet logging.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"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-908","name":"Use of Uninitialized Resource"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix uninitialized padding leak in NFULA_PAYLOAD\n\n__build_packet_message() manually constructs the NFULA_PAYLOAD netlink\nattribute using skb_put() and skb_copy_bits(), bypassing the standard\nnla_reserve()/nla_put() helpers. While nla_total_size(data_len) bytes\nare allocated (including NLA alignment padding), only data_len bytes\nof actual packet data are copied. The trailing nla_padlen(data_len)\nbytes (1-3 when data_len is not 4-byte aligned) are never initialized,\nleaking stale heap contents to userspace via the NFLOG netlink socket.\n\nReplace the manual attribute construction with nla_reserve(), which\nhandles the tailroom check, header setup, and padding zeroing via\n__nla_reserve(). The subsequent skb_copy_bits() fills in the payload\ndata on top of the properly initialized attribute.","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: nfnetlink_log: fix uninitialized padding leak in NFULA_PAYLOAD","id":"CVE-2026-31428","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head","id":"CVE-2026-31429"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix use of uninitialized rtp_addr in process_sdp","id":"CVE-2026-31427"},"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 local attacker can read uninitialized kernel heap memory via the NFLOG netlink socket due to missing padding initialization in packet logging.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31428/"}