CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40279
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak
In tcf_connmark_dump(), the variable 'opt' was partially initialized using a
designatied initializer. While the padding bytes are reamined
uninitialized. nla_put() copies the entire structure into a
netlink message, these uninitialized bytes leaked to userspace.
Initialize the structure with memset before assigning its fields
to ensure all members and padding are cleared prior to beign copied.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62b656e43eaeae445a39cd8021a4f47065af4389 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73cc56c608c209d3d666cc571293b090a471da70 git.kernel.org