# 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-2026-31579"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:10.208Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:39:33.170Z"
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-2026-31579"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31579.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31579"
title: "wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit\n\nwg_netns_pre_exit() manually acquires rtnl_lock() inside the\npernet .pre_exit callback.  This causes a hung task when another\nthread holds rtnl_mutex - the cleanup_net workqueue (or the\nsetup_net failure rollback path) blocks indefinitely in\nwg_netns_pre_exit() waiting to acquire the lock.\n\nConvert to .exit_rtnl, introduced in commit 7a60d91c690b (\"net:\nAdd -\u003eexit_rtnl() hook to struct pernet_operations.\"), where the\nframework already holds RTNL and batches all callbacks under a\nsingle rtnl_lock()/rtnl_unlock() pair, eliminating the contention\nwindow.\n\nThe rcu_assign_pointer(wg-\u003ecreating_net, NULL) is safe to move\nfrom .pre_exit to .exit_rtnl (which runs after synchronize_rcu())\nbecause all RCU readers of creating_net either use maybe_get_net()\n- which returns NULL for a dying namespace with zero refcount - or\naccess net-\u003euser_ns which remains valid throughout the entire\nops_undo_list sequence.\n\n[ Jason: added __net_exit and __read_mostly annotations that were missing. ]"
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