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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31680"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-25T08:46:56.807Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:56:04.513Z"
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-2026-31680"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31680.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31680"
title: "net: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown\n\n`ip6fl_seq_show()` walks the global flowlabel hash under the seq-file\nRCU read-side lock and prints `fl-\u003eopt-\u003eopt_nflen` when an option block\nis present.\n\nExclusive flowlabels currently free `fl-\u003eopt` as soon as `fl-\u003eusers`\ndrops to zero in `fl_release()`. However, the surrounding\n`struct ip6_flowlabel` remains visible in the global hash table until\nlater garbage collection removes it and `fl_free_rcu()` finally tears it\ndown.\n\nA concurrent `/proc/net/ip6_flowlabel` reader can therefore race that\nearly `kfree()` and dereference freed option state, triggering a crash\nin `ip6fl_seq_show()`.\n\nFix this by keeping `fl-\u003eopt` alive until `fl_free_rcu()`. That matches\nthe lifetime already required for the enclosing flowlabel while readers\ncan still reach it under RCU."
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