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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31411" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-08T13:06:17.800Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:15:48.319Z" 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-2026-31411" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31411.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31411" title: "net: atm: fix crash due to unvalidated vcc pointer in sigd_send()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: atm: fix crash due to unvalidated vcc pointer in sigd_send()\n\nReproducer available at [1].\n\nThe ATM send path (sendmsg -\u003e vcc_sendmsg -\u003e sigd_send) reads the vcc\npointer from msg-\u003evcc and uses it directly without any validation. This\npointer comes from userspace via sendmsg() and can be arbitrarily forged:\n\n int fd = socket(AF_ATMSVC, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);\n ioctl(fd, ATMSIGD_CTRL); // become ATM signaling daemon\n struct msghdr msg = { .msg_iov = &iov, ... };\n *(unsigned long *)(buf + 4) = 0xdeadbeef; // fake vcc pointer\n sendmsg(fd, &msg, 0); // kernel dereferences 0xdeadbeef\n\nIn normal operation, the kernel sends the vcc pointer to the signaling\ndaemon via sigd_enq() when processing operations like connect(), bind(),\nor listen(). The daemon is expected to return the same pointer when\nresponding. However, a malicious daemon can send arbitrary pointer values.\n\nFix this by introducing find_get_vcc() which validates the pointer by\nsearching through vcc_hash (similar to how sigd_close() iterates over\nall VCCs), and acquires a reference via sock_hold() if found.\n\nSince struct atm_vcc embeds struct sock as its first member, they share\nthe same lifetime. Therefore using sock_hold/sock_put is sufficient to\nkeep the vcc alive while it is being used.\n\nNote that there may be a race with sigd_close() which could mark the vcc\nwith various flags (e.g., ATM_VF_RELEASED) after find_get_vcc() returns.\nHowever, sock_hold() guarantees the memory remains valid, so this race\nonly affects the logical state, not memory safety.\n\n[1]: https://gist.github.com/mrpre/1ba5949c45529c511152e2f4c755b0f3" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c96549d07dfdd51aadf0722cfb40711574424840"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c8bda3df028d5e54134077dcd09f46ca8cfceb5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e1a8b00095246a9a2b46b57f6d471c6d3c00ed2"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3f80666c2739296c3b69a127300455c43aa1067"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"21c303fec138c002f90ed33bce60e807d53072bb"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69d3f9ee5489e6e8b66defcfa226e91d82393297"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"440c9a5fc477a8ee259d8bf669531250b8398651"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae88a5d2f29b69819dc7b04086734439d074a643"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.252","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.202","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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