# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31664"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:45:13.922Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:17:34.288Z"
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-2026-31664"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31664.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31664"
title: "xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()\n\nbuild_expire() clears the trailing padding bytes of struct\nxfrm_user_expire after setting the hard field via memset_after(),\nbut the analogous function build_polexpire() does not do this for\nstruct xfrm_user_polexpire.\n\nThe padding bytes after the __u8 hard field are left\nuninitialized from the heap allocation, and are then sent to\nuserspace via netlink multicast to XFRMNLGRP_EXPIRE listeners,\nleaking kernel heap memory contents.\n\nAdd the missing memset_after() call, matching build_expire()."
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