# 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-2026-31663"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:45:13.239Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:39:39.754Z"
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-2026-31663"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31663.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31663"
title: "xfrm: hold dev ref until after transport_finish NF_HOOK"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: hold dev ref until after transport_finish NF_HOOK\n\nAfter async crypto completes, xfrm_input_resume() calls dev_put()\nimmediately on re-entry before the skb reaches transport_finish.\nThe skb-\u003edev pointer is then used inside NF_HOOK and its okfn,\nwhich can race with device teardown.\n\nRemove the dev_put from the async resumption entry and instead\ndrop the reference after the NF_HOOK call in transport_finish,\nusing a saved device pointer since NF_HOOK may consume the skb.\nThis covers NF_DROP, NF_QUEUE and NF_STOLEN paths that skip\nthe okfn.\n\nFor non-transport exits (decaps, gro, drop) and secondary\nasync return points, release the reference inline when\nasync is set."
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