# 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-2026-31428"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-13T13:40:30.987Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:16:10.258Z"
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-2026-31428"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31428.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31428"
title: "netfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix uninitialized padding leak in NFULA_PAYLOAD"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix uninitialized padding leak in NFULA_PAYLOAD\n\n__build_packet_message() manually constructs the NFULA_PAYLOAD netlink\nattribute using skb_put() and skb_copy_bits(), bypassing the standard\nnla_reserve()/nla_put() helpers. While nla_total_size(data_len) bytes\nare allocated (including NLA alignment padding), only data_len bytes\nof actual packet data are copied. The trailing nla_padlen(data_len)\nbytes (1-3 when data_len is not 4-byte aligned) are never initialized,\nleaking stale heap contents to userspace via the NFLOG netlink socket.\n\nReplace the manual attribute construction with nla_reserve(), which\nhandles the tailroom check, header setup, and padding zeroing via\n__nla_reserve(). The subsequent skb_copy_bits() fills in the payload\ndata on top of the properly initialized attribute."
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