net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak In tcf_connmark_dump(), the variable 'opt' was partially initialized using a designatied initializer. While the padding bytes are reamined uninitialized. nla_put() copies the entire structure into a netlink message, these uninitialized bytes leaked to userspace. Initialize the structure with memset before assigning its fields to ensure all members and padding are cleared prior to beign copied.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak In tcf_connmark_dump(), the variable 'opt' was partially initialized using a designatied initializer. While the padding bytes are reamined uninitialized. nla_put() copies the entire structure into a netlink message, these uninitialized bytes leaked to userspace. Initialize the structure with memset before assigning its fields to ensure all members and padding are cleared prior to beign copied.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62b656e43eaeae445a39cd8021a4f47065af4389
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73cc56c608c209d3d666cc571293b090a471da70
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/40xxx/CVE-2025-40279.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40279