# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31531"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-23T11:12:44.143Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:39:26.586Z"
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-2026-31531"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31531.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31531"
title: "ipv4: nexthop: allocate skb dynamically in rtm_get_nexthop()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: nexthop: allocate skb dynamically in rtm_get_nexthop()\n\nWhen querying a nexthop object via RTM_GETNEXTHOP, the kernel currently\nallocates a fixed-size skb using NLMSG_GOODSIZE. While sufficient for\nsingle nexthops and small Equal-Cost Multi-Path groups, this fixed\nallocation fails for large nexthop groups like 512 nexthops.\n\nThis results in the following warning splat:\n\n WARNING: net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3395 at rtm_get_nexthop+0x176/0x1c0, CPU#20: rep/4608\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:rtm_get_nexthop (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3395)\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6989)\n  netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550)\n  netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344)\n  netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894)\n  ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:721 net/socket.c:736 net/socket.c:2585)\n  ___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2641)\n  __sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2671)\n  do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\n  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nFix this by allocating the size dynamically using nh_nlmsg_size() and\nusing nlmsg_new(), this is consistent with nexthop_notify() behavior. In\naddition, adjust nh_nlmsg_size_grp() so it calculates the size needed\nbased on flags passed. While at it, also add the size of NHA_FDB for\nnexthop group size calculation as it was missing too.\n\nThis cannot be reproduced via iproute2 as the group size is currently\nlimited and the command fails as follows:\n\naddattr_l ERROR: message exceeded bound of 1048"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18a4543c1750f96be63e349936d2dfdcb360b2dc"},{"version":"430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"615517f3f8d53b0cf41507c7599971e17adfdfa5"},{"version":"430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40bd39e383a0478fd5c221f393df05fd9d70cfbc"},{"version":"430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"635038fe19db391117e66b46bdc2b6e447ac801d"},{"version":"430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14cf0cd35361f4e94824bf8a42f72713d7702a73"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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