CVE-2026-31431

CVE-2026-31431 is a local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel’s algif_aead/AF_ALG path. The root cause is an in-place operation bug in the AEAD handling, which can be exercised via AF_ALG sockets with the authencesn algorithm and splice() to corrupt the kernel page cache of readable files wi...

CVE-2015-8816

CVE-2015-8816 affects the Linux kernel prior to 4.3.5, where hub_activate in drivers/usb/core/hub.c mishandles hub-interface data. Physically proximate attackers can unplug a USB hub to trigger invalid memory access and a system crash (DoS); impact may be unspecified otherwise. A fixed version ex...