CVE-2025-40279

net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 6, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae to before 218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7Affected
  • 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae to before 73cc56c608c209d3d666cc571293b090a471da70Affected
  • 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae to before 31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9eAffected
  • 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae to before 51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7eAffected
  • 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae to before 25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343Affected
  • 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae to before 62b656e43eaeae445a39cd8021a4f47065af4389Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.0Affected
  • before 4.0Not 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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