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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-99031"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:21:31.535Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:21:31.535Z"
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-2026-99031"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99031.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99031"
title: "net: bridge: avoid recursive multicast port cleanup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: bridge: avoid recursive multicast port cleanup\n\nbr_multicast_sg_del_exclude_ports() removes automatically added STAR_EXCL\nport groups by calling br_multicast_del_pg(). For S,G entries, that\ndeletion calls back into br_multicast_sg_del_exclude_ports(), so a large\nnumber of STAR_EXCL ports consumes one kernel stack frame per port and can\nhit the stack guard page.\n\nKeep the complete port-group deletion path for cleanup, but suppress the\nS,G exclude-port cleanup while that helper is already walking the same\nentry. Normal deletion callers retain the existing behavior."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8266a0491e92d39dc9af739e8380a0daa9b8836b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"695a5a4c69c922d9296b2d7ad5f1ce8c6858fc64"},{"version":"8266a0491e92d39dc9af739e8380a0daa9b8836b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fb87c6025f90191516bee3ce14b42eb3e1cfed7"},{"version":"8266a0491e92d39dc9af739e8380a0daa9b8836b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d109141ba14652146089ef78b32d5e4d5285ebad"},{"version":"8266a0491e92d39dc9af739e8380a0daa9b8836b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7931fb9181421953f3133b408b0f2e2b8dd68b61"},{"version":"8266a0491e92d39dc9af739e8380a0daa9b8836b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5158353121bae4f552cb677ce8c5c3ef52f93a0d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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