CVE-2026-53211

netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Jun 25, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

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

netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register

NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR declares its destination register with len = ETH_ALEN (6 bytes), which the register-init tracking rounds up to two 32-bit registers (8 bytes). nft_meta_bridge_get_eval() then does memcpy(dest, br_dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN), writing only 6 bytes and leaving the upper 2 bytes of the second register as uninitialised nft_do_chain() stack. A downstream load of that register span leaks those stale bytes to userspace.

Zero the second register before the memcpy so the full declared span is written.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • cbd2257dc96e3e46217540fcb095a757ffa20d96 to before 07acb9798477535933bd658ac9fa85b6cb10d995Affected
  • cbd2257dc96e3e46217540fcb095a757ffa20d96 to before f1e81d571e375d10e50e852223593493d98c1bacAffected
  • cbd2257dc96e3e46217540fcb095a757ffa20d96 to before c7d573551f9286100a055ef696cde6af54549677Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.36 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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