# 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-2026-31495"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:54:17.591Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:16:37.147Z"
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-2026-31495"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31495.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31495"
title: "netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks\n\nReplace manual range and mask validations with netlink policy\nannotations in ctnetlink code paths, so that the netlink core rejects\ninvalid values early and can generate extack errors.\n\n- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE: reject values \u003e TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT2 at\n  policy level, removing the manual \u003e= TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX check.\n- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL/REPLY: reject values \u003e TCP_MAX_WSCALE\n  (14). The normal TCP option parsing path already clamps to this value,\n  but the ctnetlink path accepted 0-255, causing undefined behavior when\n  used as a u32 shift count.\n- CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS/REPLY_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with\n  CTA_FILTER_F_ALL, removing the manual mask checks.\n- CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK, adding\n  a new mask define grouping all valid expect flags.\n\nExtracted from a broader nf-next patch by Florian Westphal, scoped to\nctnetlink for the fixes tree."
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