# 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-2026-31662"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:45:12.593Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:56:02.280Z"
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-2026-31662"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31662.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31662"
title: "tipc: fix bc_ackers underflow on duplicate GRP_ACK_MSG"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: fix bc_ackers underflow on duplicate GRP_ACK_MSG\n\nThe GRP_ACK_MSG handler in tipc_group_proto_rcv() currently decrements\nbc_ackers on every inbound group ACK, even when the same member has\nalready acknowledged the current broadcast round.\n\nBecause bc_ackers is a u16, a duplicate ACK received after the last\nlegitimate ACK wraps the counter to 65535. Once wrapped,\ntipc_group_bc_cong() keeps reporting congestion and later group\nbroadcasts on the affected socket stay blocked until the group is\nrecreated.\n\nFix this by ignoring duplicate or stale ACKs before touching bc_acked or\nbc_ackers. This makes repeated GRP_ACK_MSG handling idempotent and\nprevents the underflow path."
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