CVE-2026-31418

high

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceacaa76f221a6577aba945bb8873c2e640aeba4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7eef00f08b92b0b9efe8ae0df6d0005e6199323

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad92ee87462f9a3061361d392e9dbfe2e5c1c9fb

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9862ef9ab0a116c6dca98842aab7de13a252ae02

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cea34d7ec6829b62f521a37a287f670144a2233

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68ca0eea0af02bed36c5e2c13e9fa1647c31a7d4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-13

Updated: 2026-04-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024