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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-12-06 | Updated 2025-12-06 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae (git) before 218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7
affected

22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae (git) before 73cc56c608c209d3d666cc571293b090a471da70
affected

22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae (git) before 31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9e
affected

22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae (git) before 51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7e
affected

22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae (git) before 25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343
affected

22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae (git) before 62b656e43eaeae445a39cd8021a4f47065af4389
affected

Default status
affected

4.0
affected

Any version before 4.0
unaffected

5.15.197 (semver)
unaffected

6.1.159 (semver)
unaffected

6.6.117 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.59 (semver)
unaffected

6.17.9 (semver)
unaffected

6.18 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7

git.kernel.org/...c/73cc56c608c209d3d666cc571293b090a471da70

git.kernel.org/...c/31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9e

git.kernel.org/...c/51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7e

git.kernel.org/...c/25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343

git.kernel.org/...c/62b656e43eaeae445a39cd8021a4f47065af4389

cve.org (CVE-2025-40279)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-40279)

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