Bug 2466981 (CVE-2026-43088) - CVE-2026-43088 kernel: net: af_key: zero aligned sockaddr tail in PF_KEY exports
Summary: CVE-2026-43088 kernel: net: af_key: zero aligned sockaddr tail in PF_KEY exports
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-43088
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-05-06 10:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-06 15:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-06 10:01:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: af_key: zero aligned sockaddr tail in PF_KEY exports

PF_KEY export paths use `pfkey_sockaddr_size()` when reserving sockaddr
payload space, so IPv6 addresses occupy 32 bytes on the wire. However,
`pfkey_sockaddr_fill()` initializes only the first 28 bytes of
`struct sockaddr_in6`, leaving the final 4 aligned bytes uninitialized.

Not every PF_KEY message is affected. The state and policy dump builders
already zero the whole message buffer before filling the sockaddr
payloads. Keep the fix to the export paths that still append aligned
sockaddr payloads with plain `skb_put()`:

  - `SADB_ACQUIRE`
  - `SADB_X_NAT_T_NEW_MAPPING`
  - `SADB_X_MIGRATE`

Fix those paths by clearing only the aligned sockaddr tail after
`pfkey_sockaddr_fill()`.


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