CVE-2025-40279

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

N/A
Published: December 6, 2025 at 09:51 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 07:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae4.0
Vendor states this is fixed in 218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 62b656e43eaeae445a39cd8021a4f47065af4389 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 73cc56c608c209d3d666cc571293b090a471da70 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.197 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.159 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.59 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.117 (unaffected)

Remediation

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