# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31669"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:45:17.295Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:56:03.360Z"
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-2026-31669"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31669.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31669"
title: "mptcp: fix slab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fix slab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established\n\nThe ehash table lookups are lockless and rely on\nSLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU to guarantee socket memory stability\nduring RCU read-side critical sections. Both tcp_prot and\ntcpv6_prot have their slab caches created with this flag\nvia proto_register().\n\nHowever, MPTCP's mptcp_subflow_init() copies tcpv6_prot into\ntcpv6_prot_override during inet_init() (fs_initcall, level 5),\nbefore inet6_init() (module_init/device_initcall, level 6) has\ncalled proto_register(&tcpv6_prot). At that point,\ntcpv6_prot.slab is still NULL, so tcpv6_prot_override.slab\nremains NULL permanently.\n\nThis causes MPTCP v6 subflow child sockets to be allocated via\nkmalloc (falling into kmalloc-4k) instead of the TCPv6 slab\ncache. The kmalloc-4k cache lacks SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, so\nwhen these sockets are freed without SOCK_RCU_FREE (which is\ncleared for child sockets by design), the memory can be\nimmediately reused. Concurrent ehash lookups under\nrcu_read_lock can then access freed memory, triggering a\nslab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established.\n\nFix this by splitting the IPv6-specific initialization out of\nmptcp_subflow_init() into a new mptcp_subflow_v6_init(), called\nfrom mptcp_proto_v6_init() before protocol registration. This\nensures tcpv6_prot_override.slab correctly inherits the\nSLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab cache."
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