---
id: CVE-2026-31419
title: |-
  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 clo…
summary: |-
  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 clo…
severity: high
cvss: 7.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-416
  - CWE-416
vendor: linux
product: linux_kernel
affected:
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.10.94, < 5.11'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.15.17, < 5.16'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.16.3, < 5.17'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.17, < 6.12.86'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.22'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 6.19.12'
  - linux_kernel = 7.0
patched:
  - linux_kernel 6.19.12
published: '2026-04-13'
updated: '2026-07-04'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31419'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2884bf72fb8f03409e423397319205de48adca16'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2de5c8eea0a9db99dae7c36f4b541b74b41d3a04'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0f661918edc79d7a75e468128af8d41e2a1a83a'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4cc7e4c80b1634c7b1497574a2fdb18df6c026c'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5b94654a4a19891a8108d66ef166de6c028c6cd'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13566'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19521'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21209'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22334'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22900'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22940'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23224'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25191'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25217'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27353'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27354'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31419'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457829'
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
  - url: >-
      https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-31419.json
    label: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00181
epssPercentile: 0.06824
ingestedAt: '2026-07-04T12:56:09.352Z'
---

## Overview

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
==================================================================

## Affected

- `linux_kernel >= 5.10.94, < 5.11`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.15.17, < 5.16`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.16.3, < 5.17`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.17, < 6.12.86`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.22`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 6.19.12`
- `linux_kernel = 7.0`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `linux_kernel 6.19.12`
