CVE-2025-40278

net: sched: act_ife: initialize struct tc_ife to fix KMSAN kernel-infoleak

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 6, 2025
Updated
Jun 2, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: sched: act_ife: initialize struct tc_ife to fix KMSAN kernel-infoleak

Fix a KMSAN kernel-infoleak detected by the syzbot .

[net?] KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in __skb_datagram_iter

In tcf_ife_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.

This change silences the KMSAN report and prevents potential information leaks from the kernel memory.

This fix has been tested and validated by syzbot. This patch closes the bug reported at the following syzkaller link and ensures no infoleak.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 to before 918e063304f945fb93be9bb70cacea07d0b730eaAffected
  • ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 to before 5e3644ef147bf7140259dfa4cace680c9b26fe8bAffected
  • ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 to before 37f0680887c5aeba9a433fe04b35169010568bb1Affected
  • ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 to before 2191662058443e0bcc28d11694293d8339af6ddeAffected
  • ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 to before a676a296af65d33725bdf7396803180957dbd92eAffected
  • ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 to before d1dbbbe839647486c9b893e5011fe84a052962dfAffected
  • ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 to before c8f51dad94cbb88054e2aacc272b3ce1ed11fb1eAffected
  • ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 to before ce50039be49eea9b4cd8873ca6eccded1b4a130aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.6Affected
  • before 4.6Not affected
  • 5.4.302 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.247 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.197 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.159 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.117 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.59 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.9 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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