Bug 2419842 (CVE-2025-40279) - CVE-2025-40279 kernel: net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak
Summary: CVE-2025-40279 kernel: net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40279
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-08 07:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-10 10:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-08 07:02:43 UTC
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.


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