# 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-2026-31422"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-13T13:40:25.911Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:16:02.769Z"
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-2026-31422"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31422.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31422"
title: "net/sched: cls_flow: fix NULL pointer dereference on shared blocks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: cls_flow: fix NULL pointer dereference on shared blocks\n\nflow_change() calls tcf_block_q() and dereferences q-\u003ehandle to derive\na default baseclass.  Shared blocks leave block-\u003eq NULL, causing a NULL\nderef when a flow filter without a fully qualified baseclass is created\non a shared block.\n\nCheck tcf_block_shared() before accessing block-\u003eq and return -EINVAL\nfor shared blocks.  This avoids the null-deref shown below:\n\n=======================================================================\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]\nRIP: 0010:flow_change (net/sched/cls_flow.c:508)\nCall Trace:\n tc_new_tfilter (net/sched/cls_api.c:2432)\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6980)\n [...]\n======================================================================="
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