Bug 2559571 (CVE-2026-98873) - CVE-2026-98873 kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: zero at allocation time
Summary: CVE-2026-98873 kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: zero at allocation time
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98873
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-23 12:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-26 10:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 12:04:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: zero at allocation time

There are occasional LLM hints wrt. leaking uninitialized data to
userspace via ctnetlink.  Just zero at allocation time,
expectations are not frequently used these days.

Intentionally keeps _init as-is because we could theoretically
support re-init, so add the missing exp->dir there.


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