# 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-2026-31407"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-06T07:38:19.712Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:47.097Z"
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-2026-31407"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31407.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31407"
title: "netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations\n\nHyunwoo Kim reports out-of-bounds access in sctp and ctnetlink.\n\nThese attributes are used by the kernel without any validation.\nExtend the netlink policies accordingly.\n\nQuoting the reporter:\n  nlattr_to_sctp() assigns the user-supplied CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE\n  value directly to ct-\u003eproto.sctp.state without checking that it is\n  within the valid range. [..]\n\n  and: ... with exp-\u003edir = 100, the access at\n  ct-\u003emaster-\u003etuplehash[100] reads 5600 bytes past the start of a\n  320-byte nf_conn object, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read confirmed by\n  UBSAN."
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