Linux Kernel: Race Condition (CVE-2026-31419)
Published Last modified Sources: Ubuntu, BSI, Debian, Debian LTS, Red Hat, CVE.org, Msrc Update Guide, EUVD
What is affected, what to do
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast() bond_xmit_broadcast() reuses the original skb for the last slave (determined by bond_is_last_slave()) and clones it for others. Concurrent slave enslave/release can mutate the slave list during RCU-protected iteration, changing which slave is "last" mid-loop.
The available sources name no fixed version. Check the vendor guidance in the references below.
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Metrics
7.8
Priority
XIEM Effective CVSS: highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.
Source: NVD, CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v3
Severity High on the scale from 0 to 10.
Source: Ubuntu, BSI, Debian, Debian LTS, Red Hat, CVE.org, Msrc Update Guide, EUVD
0.1 %
EPSS score
Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
Source: FIRST EPSS, percentile 2.6
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- Severity
- High
Priority (0–325)
The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?
Read in glossary- 55.07 Methodology
Exploit maturity
An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.
Read in glossary- no public PoC known
XIEM Effective CVSS
XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.
Read in glossary- 7.8 Methodology
CVSS v3
CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.
Read in glossary- 7.8
EPSS score
The EPSS score is the absolute model output for an individual vulnerability: the estimated probability of real-world exploitation within the next 30 days, expressed as a value between 0 and 1 (i.e. 0 % to 100 %). A score of 0.42 means „the model estimates a 42 % chance of real-world exploitation within 30 days“.
Read in glossary- 0.1 %
- Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
EPSS percentile
The EPSS percentile is the relative position of a vulnerability within all EPSS-scored CVEs, expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A percentile of 0.90 means „this CVE has a higher EPSS score than 90 % of all other scored CVEs“. Unlike the EPSS score, it is not a probability — but a positioning within a ranking.
Read in glossary- 2.6
- Low — this CVE sits in the lower 10% of all CVEs scored today.
KEV status
The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.
Read in glossary- —
- Published
- CISA assessment (SSVC)
- Exploitation: none known · not automatable · Technical impact: total
- Source: CISA Vulnrichment, as of 16 October 2026
CWE
CWE is a catalogue of typical weakness types in software and hardware — such as flawed input validation, unsafe memory handling or poor authentication. Where a CVE names a concrete vulnerability in a concrete product, a CWE describes the underlying class of defect.
Read in glossary- CWE-362
Detection rules
No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.
Classification under NIS2 and CRA
Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.
NIS2
NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.
Read in glossary- High technical severity: assess and remediate the vulnerability in vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2 and document the decision.
CRA
The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.
Read in glossary- From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.
Read in glossary- Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast() bond_xmit_broadcast() reuses the original skb for the last slave (determined by bond_is_last_slave()) and clones it for others. Concurrent slave enslave/release can mutate the slave list during RCU-protected iteration, changing which slave is "last" mid-loop. This causes the original skb to be double-consumed (double-freed). Replace the racy bond_is_last_slave() check with a simple index comparison (i + 1 == slaves_count) against the pre-snapshot slave count taken via READ_ONCE() before the loop. This preserves the zero-copy optimization for the last slave while making the "last" determination stable against concurrent list mutations. The UAF can trigger the following crash: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_clone Read of size 8 at addr ffff888100ef8d40 by task exploit/147 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 147 Comm: exploit Not tainted 7.0.0-rc3+ #4 PREEMPTLAZY Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123) print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482) kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597) skb_clone (include/linux/skbuff.h:1724 include/linux/skbuff.h:1792 include/linux/skbuff.h:3396 net/core/skbuff.c:2108) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5334) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5567 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5593) dev_hard_start_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:5325 include/linux/netdevice.h:5334 net/core/dev.c:3871 net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:3601 net/core/dev.c:4838) ip6_finish_output2 (include/net/neighbour.h:540 include/net/neighbour.h:554 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:136) ip6_finish_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:208 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:219) ip6_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:250) ip6_send_skb (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1985) udp_v6_send_skb (net/ipv6/udp.c:1442) udpv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/udp.c:1733) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:730 net/socket.c:742 net/socket.c:2206) __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2209) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130) </TASK> Allocated by task 147: Freed by task 147: The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888100ef8c80 which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 224 The buggy address is located 192 bytes inside of freed 224-byte region [ffff888100ef8c80, ffff888100ef8d60) Memory state around the buggy address: ffff888100ef8c00: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff888100ef8c80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb >ffff888100ef8d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc ^ ffff888100ef8d80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff888100ef8e00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ==================================================================
Source: Ubuntu Security Notices, BSI WID Portal, BSI CSAF, Debian Security Advisories, Debian LTS Advisories, redhat_csaf, cvelistv5, NVD (NIST), Microsoft Security Update Guide, ENISA EUVD, CVE.org (MITRE)
Affected products
The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.
| Affected versions | Fixed in | ||
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| Linux | Linux |
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| IBM | DataPower Gateway |
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| IBM | QRadar SIEM |
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| Microsoft | Azure Linux |
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Vendors and products
Affected operating systems
| Linux | ubuntu | aws | bionic |
| Linux | ubuntu | aws | jammy |
| Linux | ubuntu | aws | noble |
| Linux | ubuntu | aws | resolute |
| Linux | ubuntu | aws | xenial |
| Linux | ubuntu | aws-6.8 | jammy |
| Linux | ubuntu | aws-hwe | xenial |
| Linux | ubuntu | azure | jammy |
| Linux | ubuntu | azure | noble |
| Linux | ubuntu | azure | resolute |
| Linux | ubuntu | azure | xenial |
| Linux | ubuntu | azure-4.15 | bionic |
| Linux | ubuntu | gcp | jammy |
| Linux | ubuntu | gcp | noble |
| Linux | ubuntu | gcp | resolute |
| Linux | ubuntu | gcp | xenial |
| Linux | ubuntu | gcp-4.15 | bionic |
| Linux | ubuntu | gcp-6.8 | jammy |
| Linux | ubuntu | generic-4.15 | bionic |
| Linux | ubuntu | generic-4.15 | xenial |
| Linux | ubuntu | generic-4.4 | xenial |
| Linux | ubuntu | generic-5.4 | bionic |
| Linux | ubuntu | generic-5.4 | focal |
| Linux | ubuntu | gke | jammy |
Weakness classes (CWE)
CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Class
The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.
Entry at MITRE CWE-362
References & sources
- git.kernel.orgstable/c/3453882f36c40d2339267093676585a89808a73deuvd
- git.kernel.orgstable/c/d4cc7e4c80b1634c7b1497574a2fdb18df6c026ceuvd, Patch
- git.kernel.orgstable/c/f5b94654a4a19891a8108d66ef166de6c028c6cdeuvd, Patch
- git.kernel.orgstable/c/2884bf72fb8f03409e423397319205de48adca16euvd, Patch
- git.kernel.orgstable/c/00752893f96b344f258c9c6de18b33171ac4872c
- git.kernel.orgstable/c/2de5c8eea0a9db99dae7c36f4b541b74b41d3a04
- git.kernel.orgstable/c/a0f661918edc79d7a75e468128af8d41e2a1a83a
- access.redhat.comsecurity/cve/CVE-2026-31419Vulnerability database, x_refsource_REDHAT
- bugzilla.redhat.comRHBZ#2457829Issue tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
- security.access.redhat.comdata/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-31419.jsonx_sadp-csaf-vex
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:22334Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:13566Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:25191Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:22940Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:21209Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:23224Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:25217Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:35870Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:27353Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.comerrata/RHSA-2026:36530Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
Changes to this CVE
Who changed this CVE and when: NVD (analysis, affected products, CVSS), the CVE publisher (CNA) and additional providers such as CISA (ADP).
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Weakness type: CWE-362
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New references:- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00752893f96b344f258c9c6de18b33171ac4872c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2884bf72fb8f03409e423397319205de48adca16
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2de5c8eea0a9db99dae7c36f4b541b74b41d3a04
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0f661918edc79d7a75e468128af8d41e2a1a83a
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CISA assessment (SSVC): exploitation: none known, automatable: no
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