{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-31435", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-03-09T15:48:24.089Z", "datePublished": "2026-04-22T13:53:35.032Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:22:28.838Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:22:28.838Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Fix read abandonment during retry\n\nUnder certain circumstances, all the remaining subrequests from a read\nrequest will get abandoned during retry. The abandonment process expects\nthe 'subreq' variable to be set to the place to start abandonment from, but\nit doesn't always have a useful value (it will be uninitialised on the\nfirst pass through the loop and it may point to a deleted subrequest on\nlater passes).\n\nFix the first jump to \"abandon:\" to set subreq to the start of the first\nsubrequest expected to need retry (which, in this abandonment case, turned\nout unexpectedly to no longer have NEED_RETRY set).\n\nAlso clear the subreq pointer after discarding superfluous retryable\nsubrequests to cause an oops if we do try to access it." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 8.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - The vulnerable netfs retry path processes read results from network filesystem peers such as SMB/CIFS, Ceph, AFS, 9P, and NFS/fscache-backed paths. A malicious or compromised remote filesystem server can drive retry/short-read behavior over the network.\nAC:L - The trigger is retry/abandonment state during ordinary read handling, and a malicious peer can influence short reads, retryable errors, reconnects, or malformed responses. No uncontrollable race or rare memory layout condition is required to reach the vulnerable path.\nPR:N - The attacker can be the remote filesystem peer and needs no privileges on the vulnerable client kernel. Local credentials may be needed by a victim/client to use the mount, but not by the remote attacker.\nUI:R - The client must mount/use the network filesystem and perform or have a process perform a read that reaches the affected netfs path. Opening or reading a file is victim-side interaction.\nS:U - The impact remains within the kernel/client system security authority. This is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or cross-authority boundary escape.\nC:H - The bug can use an uninitialized or stale freed subrequest pointer in list traversal and field access. That kernel memory corruption/use-after-free is defensibly exploitable for information disclosure.\nI:H - The stale subrequest case can write fields and flags through a freed object and continue list traversal from freed memory. This is kernel memory corruption with potential arbitrary write/control-flow impact.\nA:H - Even without full exploitation, dereferencing an uninitialized or freed subrequest pointer can oops or panic the kernel. A malicious peer can repeatedly induce the read retry condition to cause denial of service." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/netfs/read_retry.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e", "lessThan": "3e5fd8f53b575ff2188f82071da19c977ca56c41", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e", "lessThan": "8f2f2bd128a8d9edbc1e785760da54ada3df69b7", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e", "lessThan": "7e57523490cd2efb52b1ea97f2e0a74c0fb634cd", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/netfs/read_retry.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.12", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.12", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.21", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.19.11", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.19.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.0", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.12", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.21" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.12", "versionEndExcluding": "6.19.11" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.12", "versionEndExcluding": "7.0" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e5fd8f53b575ff2188f82071da19c977ca56c41" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f2f2bd128a8d9edbc1e785760da54ada3df69b7" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e57523490cd2efb52b1ea97f2e0a74c0fb634cd" } ], "title": "netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }