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Tracker / CVE-2026-31418

CVE-2026-31418

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: drop logically empty buckets in mtype_del mtype_del() counts empty slots below n->pos in k, but it only drops the bucket when both n->pos and k are zero. This misses buckets whose live entries have all been removed while n->pos still points past deleted slots. Treat a bucket as empty when all positions below n->pos are unused and release it directly instead of shrinking it further.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.203
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.168
linux linux_kernel · 5.4.24 → 5.5
linux linux_kernel · 5.5.8 → 5.6
linux linux_kernel · 5.6.1 → 5.10.253
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.22
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.12
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.134
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.81

Analysis

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