# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31399"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:16:03.246Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:04:55.198Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31399"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31399.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31399"
title: "nvdimm/bus: Fix potential use after free in asynchronous initialization"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvdimm/bus: Fix potential use after free in asynchronous initialization\n\nDingisoul with KASAN reports a use after free if device_add() fails in\nnd_async_device_register().\n\nCommit b6eae0f61db2 (\"libnvdimm: Hold reference on parent while\nscheduling async init\") correctly added a reference on the parent device\nto be held until asynchronous initialization was complete.  However, if\ndevice_add() results in an allocation failure the ref count of the\ndevice drops to 0 prior to the parent pointer being accessed.  Thus\nresulting in use after free.\n\nThe bug bot AI correctly identified the fix.  Save a reference to the\nparent pointer to be used to drop the parent reference regardless of the\noutcome of device_add()."
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