# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31400"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:16:03.906Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:07:57.975Z"
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-2026-31400"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31400.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31400"
title: "sunrpc: fix cache_request leak in cache_release"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsunrpc: fix cache_request leak in cache_release\n\nWhen a reader's file descriptor is closed while in the middle of reading\na cache_request (rp-\u003eoffset != 0), cache_release() decrements the\nrequest's readers count but never checks whether it should free the\nrequest.\n\nIn cache_read(), when readers drops to 0 and CACHE_PENDING is clear, the\ncache_request is removed from the queue and freed along with its buffer\nand cache_head reference. cache_release() lacks this cleanup.\n\nThe only other path that frees requests with readers == 0 is\ncache_dequeue(), but it runs only when CACHE_PENDING transitions from\nset to clear. If that transition already happened while readers was\nstill non-zero, cache_dequeue() will have skipped the request, and no\nsubsequent call will clean it up.\n\nAdd the same cleanup logic from cache_read() to cache_release(): after\ndecrementing readers, check if it reached 0 with CACHE_PENDING clear,\nand if so, dequeue and free the cache_request."
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