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
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.
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
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