{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31551 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-31551 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 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-2026-31551 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-31551 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 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-2026-31551 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-2026-31551/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31551/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-31551","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31551/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-31551","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-31551","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31551","GHSA-gmmg-2vvm-27c6","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-31551","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-31551","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-31551","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-31551","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31551"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's mac80211 Wi-Fi subsystem allows local attackers to trigger a static branch underflow, causing a kernel warning or potential denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"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-191","name":"Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: Fix static_branch_dec() underflow for aql_disable.\n\nsyzbot reported static_branch_dec() underflow in aql_enable_write(). [0]\n\nThe problem is that aql_enable_write() does not serialise concurrent\nwrite()s to the debugfs.\n\naql_enable_write() checks static_key_false(\u0026aql_disable.key) and\nlater calls static_branch_inc() or static_branch_dec(), but the\nstate may change between the two calls.\n\naql_disable does not need to track inc/dec.\n\nLet's use static_branch_enable() and static_branch_disable().\n\n[0]:\nval == 0\nWARNING: kernel/jump_label.c:311 at __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked.part.0+0x107/0x120 kernel/jump_label.c:311, CPU#0: syz.1.3155/20288\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 20288 Comm: syz.1.3155 Tainted: G     U       L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nTainted: [U]=USER, [L]=SOFTLOCKUP\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026\nRIP: 0010:__static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked.part.0+0x107/0x120 kernel/jump_label.c:311\nCode: f2 c9 ff 5b 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 54 f2 c9 ff 48 89 df e8 ac f9 ff ff eb ad e8 45 f2 c9 ff 90 0f 0b 90 eb a2 e8 3a f2 c9 ff 90 \u003c0f\u003e 0b 90 eb 97 48 89 df e8 5c 4b 33 00 e9 36 ff ff ff 0f 1f 80 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000b9f7c10 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff9b3e5d40 RCX: ffffffff823c57b4\nRDX: ffff8880285a0000 RSI: ffffffff823c5846 RDI: ffff8880285a0000\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000000a\nR13: 1ffff9200173ef88 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffc9000b9f7e98\nFS:  00007f530dd726c0(0000) GS:ffff8881245e3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000200000001140 CR3: 000000007cc4a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked kernel/jump_label.c:297 [inline]\n __static_key_slow_dec kernel/jump_label.c:321 [inline]\n static_key_slow_dec+0x7c/0xc0 kernel/jump_label.c:336\n aql_enable_write+0x2b2/0x310 net/mac80211/debugfs.c:343\n short_proxy_write+0x133/0x1a0 fs/debugfs/file.c:383\n vfs_write+0x2aa/0x1070 fs/read_write.c:684\n ksys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:793 [inline]\n __do_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:801 [inline]\n __se_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:798 [inline]\n __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x1eb/0x250 fs/read_write.c:798\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xc9/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\nRIP: 0033:0x7f530cf9aeb9\nCode: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48\nRSP: 002b:00007f530dd72028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000012\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f530d215fa0 RCX: 00007f530cf9aeb9\nRDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000010\nRBP: 00007f530d008c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 4200000000000005 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 00007f530d216038 R14: 00007f530d215fa0 R15: 00007ffde89fb978\n \u003c/TASK\u003e","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":"wifi: mac80211: Fix static_branch_dec() underflow for aql_disable.","id":"CVE-2026-31551","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"wifi: wlcore: Return -ENOMEM instead of -EAGAIN if there is not enough headroom","id":"CVE-2026-31552"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"pmdomain: bcm: bcm2835-power: Increase ASB control timeout","id":"CVE-2026-31550"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-04-24","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":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's mac80211 Wi-Fi subsystem allows local attackers to trigger a static branch underflow, causing a kernel warning or potential denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31551/"}