Bug 2461482 (CVE-2026-31664) - CVE-2026-31664 kernel: xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()
Summary: CVE-2026-31664 kernel: xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-31664
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-24 15:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-24 22:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 15:04:05 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()

build_expire() clears the trailing padding bytes of struct
xfrm_user_expire after setting the hard field via memset_after(),
but the analogous function build_polexpire() does not do this for
struct xfrm_user_polexpire.

The padding bytes after the __u8 hard field are left
uninitialized from the heap allocation, and are then sent to
userspace via netlink multicast to XFRMNLGRP_EXPIRE listeners,
leaking kernel heap memory contents.

Add the missing memset_after() call, matching build_expire().


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