Bug 2492752 (CVE-2026-53211) - CVE-2026-53211 kernel: netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register
Summary: CVE-2026-53211 kernel: netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via I...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53211
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-25 10:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-26 08:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 10:03:53 UTC
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.


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