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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31424" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-13T13:40:27.957Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:16:06.312Z" 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-2026-31424" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31424.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31424" title: "netfilter: x_tables: restrict xt_check_match/xt_check_target extensions for NFPROTO_ARP" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: x_tables: restrict xt_check_match/xt_check_target extensions for NFPROTO_ARP\n\nWeiming Shi says:\n\nxt_match and xt_target structs registered with NFPROTO_UNSPEC can be\nloaded by any protocol family through nft_compat. When such a\nmatch/target sets .hooks to restrict which hooks it may run on, the\nbitmask uses NF_INET_* constants. This is only correct for families\nwhose hook layout matches NF_INET_*: IPv4, IPv6, INET, and bridge\nall share the same five hooks (PRE_ROUTING ... POST_ROUTING).\n\nARP only has three hooks (IN=0, OUT=1, FORWARD=2) with different\nsemantics. Because NF_ARP_OUT == 1 == NF_INET_LOCAL_IN, the .hooks\nvalidation silently passes for the wrong reasons, allowing matches to\nrun on ARP chains where the hook assumptions (e.g. state-\u003ein being\nset on input hooks) do not hold. This leads to NULL pointer\ndereferences; xt_devgroup is one concrete example:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000044: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000220-0x0000000000000227]\n RIP: 0010:devgroup_mt+0xff/0x350\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n nft_match_eval (net/netfilter/nft_compat.c:407)\n nft_do_chain (net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:285)\n nft_do_chain_arp (net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:61)\n nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:623)\n arp_xmit (net/ipv4/arp.c:666)\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nFix it by restricting arptables to NFPROTO_ARP extensions only.\nNote that arptables-legacy only supports:\n\n- arpt_CLASSIFY\n- arpt_mangle\n- arpt_MARK\n\nthat provide explicit NFPROTO_ARP match/target declarations." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80e3c75f71c3ea1e62fcb032382de13e00a68f8b"},{"version":"9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9a0af9e43416aa50c0595e15fa01365a1c72c49"},{"version":"9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cd6313c8644bfebbd813a05da9daa21b09dd68c"},{"version":"9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f00ac65c90ea475719e08d629e2e26c8b4e6999b"},{"version":"9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7e1b6bcb389c8708003d40613a59ff2496f6b1f"},{"version":"9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc3e27dd7d76e21106b8f9bbdc31f5da74a89014"},{"version":"9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e79374b03bf9a2f282f0eb1d0ac3776f7e0f28a"},{"version":"9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d5d488f11776738deab9da336038add95d342d1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.39","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.39"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.12","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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