CVE-2025-40279

Linux Kernel - Information Disclosure via Uninitialized Memory in act_connmark

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 26.2%

Details

Status published
Products (19)
linux/Kernel 4.0.0 - 5.15.197linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.159linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.9linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.117linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.59linux
Linux/Linux < 4.0
Linux/Linux 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae - 218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7
Linux/Linux 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae - 25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343
Linux/Linux 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae - 31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9e
Linux/Linux 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae - 51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7e
... and 9 more
Published Dec 06, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026