Bug 2559681 (CVE-2026-98935) - CVE-2026-98935 kernel: kernel: Information disclosure via uninitialized stack memory in RTC driver
Summary: CVE-2026-98935 kernel: kernel: Information disclosure via uninitialized stack...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98935
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 13:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 18:57 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 13:01:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rtc: dev: zero-initialize struct rtc_wkalrm to prevent information leak

The struct rtc_wkalrm has padding holes after the 'pending' member.
When returned to userspace via the RTC_WKALRM_RD ioctl, uninitialized
kernel stack data residing in these holes may be leaked.

Zero-initialize the struct at declaration to eliminate this information
leak risk.

Fixes smatch warnings:
- drivers/rtc/dev.c:392 rtc_dev_ioctl() warn: check that 'alarm' doesn't
  leak information (struct has a hole after 'pending')


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