# 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-2026-31690"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-27T17:34:28.738Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:13:45.476Z"
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-2026-31690"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31690.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31690"
title: "firmware: thead: Fix buffer overflow and use standard endian macros"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: thead: Fix buffer overflow and use standard endian macros\n\nAddresses two issues in the TH1520 AON firmware protocol driver:\n\n1. Fix a potential buffer overflow where the code used unsafe pointer\n   arithmetic to access the 'mode' field through the 'resource' pointer\n   with an offset. This was flagged by Smatch static checker as:\n   \"buffer overflow 'data' 2 \u003c= 3\"\n\n2. Replace custom RPC_SET_BE* and RPC_GET_BE* macros with standard\n   kernel endianness conversion macros (cpu_to_be16, etc.) for better\n   portability and maintainability.\n\nThe functionality was re-tested with the GPU power-up sequence,\nconfirming the GPU powers up correctly and the driver probes\nsuccessfully.\n\n[   12.702370] powervr ffef400000.gpu: [drm] loaded firmware\npowervr/rogue_36.52.104.182_v1.fw\n[   12.711043] powervr ffef400000.gpu: [drm] FW version v1.0 (build\n6645434 OS)\n[   12.719787] [drm] Initialized powervr 1.0.0 for ffef400000.gpu on\nminor 0"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e4b3cbd840e565484d0ad8d260d27c057466ed17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbdb43f6bb2a15ed382d6eb0ef82c8b07b0d47bb"},{"version":"e4b3cbd840e565484d0ad8d260d27c057466ed17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bd15a5deb5a7251dc1a0cf9186f0253f7eacdb97"},{"version":"e4b3cbd840e565484d0ad8d260d27c057466ed17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88c4bd90725557796c15878b7cb70066e9e6b5ab"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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