CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43085
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator
When batching multiple NFLOG messages (inst->qlen > 1), __nfulnl_send()
appends an NLMSG_DONE terminator with sizeof(struct nfgenmsg) payload via
nlmsg_put(), but never initializes the nfgenmsg bytes. The nlmsg_put()
helper only zeroes alignment padding after the payload, not the payload
itself, so four bytes of stale kernel heap data are leaked to userspace
in the NLMSG_DONE message body.
Use nfnl_msg_put() to build the NLMSG_DONE terminator, which initializes
the nfgenmsg payload via nfnl_fill_hdr(), consistent with how
__build_packet_message() already constructs NFULNL_MSG_PACKET headers.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.23.1 < 5.10.258)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.209)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.175)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.136)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.83)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.14)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.23
• linux linux kernel 7.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15d209bccf9273b4a8b4e579ba0e92d065b6ec8c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f3083aec8836213da441270cdb1ab612dd82cf4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/296f18e1c3a87c915a92ed27832d5040a22d1072 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/368c22aea490f6f50df831b4f9e3623787686c5b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57cc509d82b46150a11dcecc8b25eaa177eda34d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e2182865de781c41ab16b7985e9d26dcefea867 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1399632ba255d2e02c757af5d9f5d9279ce168c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d552bcfca323d175664d7444989b04f55666978a Patch
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