# 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-2026-98031"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:47.562Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:36.306Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98031"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98031.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98031"
title: "nexthop: Initialize extack in remove_nh_grp_entry()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnexthop: Initialize extack in remove_nh_grp_entry()\n\nremove_nh_grp_entry() prints the extack message when a listener fails\nto replace the reduced nexthop group. However, extack is not\ninitialized and listeners are not required to set a message when\nreturning an error. Neither netdevsim nor mlxsw do so when an\nallocation fails, resulting in the dereference of an uninitialized\nstack pointer.\n\nFix by zero-initializing extack, as was done in commit 6347c5314cee\n(\"nexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate()\")."
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