CVE-2026-53211

netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 25, 2026 at 08:39 AM UTC
Updated: July 2, 2026 at 09:08 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

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.

Affected

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

6.18 ≤ v < 6.18.366.18 ≤ v < 7.0.136.18 ≤ v < 7.16.19 ≤ v < 7.0.137.1 rc17.1 rc27.1 rc37.1 rc47.1 rc57.1 rc67.1 rc7cbd2257dc96e3e46217540fcb095a757ffa20d96
Vendor states this is fixed in 07acb9798477535933bd658ac9fa85b6cb10d995 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c7d573551f9286100a055ef696cde6af54549677 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f1e81d571e375d10e50e852223593493d98c1bac (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.36 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-401

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