# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31437"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:53:36.361Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:08:41.432Z"
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-2026-31437"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31437.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31437"
title: "netfs: Fix NULL pointer dereference in netfs_unbuffered_write() on retry"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Fix NULL pointer dereference in netfs_unbuffered_write() on retry\n\nWhen a write subrequest is marked NETFS_SREQ_NEED_RETRY, the retry path\nin netfs_unbuffered_write() unconditionally calls stream-\u003eprepare_write()\nwithout checking if it is NULL.\n\nFilesystems such as 9P do not set the prepare_write operation, so\nstream-\u003eprepare_write remains NULL. When get_user_pages() fails with\n-EFAULT and the subrequest is flagged for retry, this results in a NULL\npointer dereference at fs/netfs/direct_write.c:189.\n\nFix this by mirroring the pattern already used in write_retry.c: if\nstream-\u003eprepare_write is NULL, skip renegotiation and directly reissue\nthe subrequest via netfs_reissue_write(), which handles iterator reset,\nIN_PROGRESS flag, stats update and reissue internally."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"72d08d2839649d1c5efbe375751f4473fa4486af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a4d1b4ba9754bac3efebd06f583a44a7af52c0ab"},{"version":"0c29f6d63122a0168d67cb8ecde5b4cf7fe4acb0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a5482f5ce891decbf36f2e6fab1e9fc4a76a684"},{"version":"a0b4c7a49137ed21279f354eb59f49ddae8dffc2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9075e420a1eb3b52c60f3b95893a55e77419ce8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.21"},{"version":"6.19.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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