# 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-2026-31420"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-13T13:40:24.594Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-14T11:58:16.075Z"
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-2026-31420"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31420.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31420"
title: "bridge: mrp: reject zero test interval to avoid OOM panic"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbridge: mrp: reject zero test interval to avoid OOM panic\n\nbr_mrp_start_test() and br_mrp_start_in_test() accept the user-supplied\ninterval value from netlink without validation. When interval is 0,\nusecs_to_jiffies(0) yields 0, causing the delayed work\n(br_mrp_test_work_expired / br_mrp_in_test_work_expired) to reschedule\nitself with zero delay. This creates a tight loop on system_percpu_wq\nthat allocates and transmits MRP test frames at maximum rate, exhausting\nall system memory and causing a kernel panic via OOM deadlock.\n\nThe same zero-interval issue applies to br_mrp_start_in_test_parse()\nfor interconnect test frames.\n\nUse NLA_POLICY_MIN(NLA_U32, 1) in the nla_policy tables for both\nIFLA_BRIDGE_MRP_START_TEST_INTERVAL and\nIFLA_BRIDGE_MRP_START_IN_TEST_INTERVAL, so zero is rejected at the\nnetlink attribute parsing layer before the value ever reaches the\nworkqueue scheduling code. This is consistent with how other bridge\nsubsystems (br_fdb, br_mst) enforce range constraints on netlink\nattributes."
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