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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31736"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:14:33.583Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:14:45.998Z"
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-2026-31736"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31736.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31736"
title: "net: ethernet: mtk_ppe: avoid NULL deref when gmac0 is disabled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: mtk_ppe: avoid NULL deref when gmac0 is disabled\n\nIf the gmac0 is disabled, the precheck for a valid ingress device will\ncause a NULL pointer deref and crash the system. This happens because\neth-\u003enetdev[0] will be NULL but the code will directly try to access\nnetdev_ops.\n\nInstead of just checking for the first net_device, it must be checked if\nany of the mtk_eth net_devices is matching the netdev_ops of the ingress\ndevice."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"73cfd947dbdb25ef9863ac49c4596a7d53ad4025","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b832aad33e6f160fda310f0306a6483d85e9d6e"},{"version":"73cfd947dbdb25ef9863ac49c4596a7d53ad4025","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5dff799c677152dde963c3917bacd9127b03e145"},{"version":"73cfd947dbdb25ef9863ac49c4596a7d53ad4025","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b2380f0a0e374010c1a4a13203511b9dee5b166"},{"version":"73cfd947dbdb25ef9863ac49c4596a7d53ad4025","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"976ff48c2ac6e6b25b01428c9d7997bcd0fb2949"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.12","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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