Bug 2541274 (CVE-2026-98097) - CVE-2026-98097 kernel: tipc: Dont send random pad bytes in RESET/ACTIVATE messages
Summary: CVE-2026-98097 kernel: tipc: Dont send random pad bytes in RESET/ACTIVATE mes...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98097
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-25 11:13 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-01 00:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 11:13:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tipc: Dont send random pad bytes in RESET/ACTIVATE messages

The interface name is passed in a fixed length (TIPC_MAX_IF_NAME) buffer.
Replace the strcpy(data, l->if_name) with memcpy() so that the
pad bytes are actually written (l->if_name[] is zero padded)
rather than sending random bytes from the skb to the remote system.

Replace two other strcpy() with strscpy().


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