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CVE-2026-43040

net: ipv6: ndisc: fix ndisc_ra_useropt to initialize nduseropt_padX fields to zero to prevent an info-leak PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: ndisc: fix ndisc_ra_useropt to initialize nduseropt_padX fields to zero to prevent an info-leak When processing Router Advertisements with user options the kernel builds an RTM_NEWNDUSEROPT netlink message. The nduseroptmsg struct has three padding fields that are never zeroed and can leak kernel data The fix is simple, just zeroes the padding fields.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 31910575a9de61e78065e93846e8e7a4894a18bf before 1da9023f6b071a38e5430ffbce4b70b2b1ac4f9c; affected 31910575a9de61e78065e93846e8e7a4894a18bf before 2fe4d0ba690a69ad6ae9f7ab9bdc96e02610b648; affected 31910575a9de61e78065e93846e8e7a4894a18bf before 11d7fe97421cfc81549940c20ed5ac9472d6db05; affected 31910575a9de61e78065e93846e8e7a4894a18bf before 7f56d87e527bb5a13c3e8b0d5840cb6332822f6d; affected 31910575a9de61e78065e93846e8e7a4894a18bf before 4f810c686fde509d1cdaa706322d9d2531f8f1a4; affected 31910575a9de61e78065e93846e8e7a4894a18bf before b485eef3d97b7aae55ce669b6de555ec81f3d21c; affected 31910575a9de61e78065e93846e8e7a4894a18bf before ef3645606e4a635d5062a492f22b7f490852ee67; affected 31910575a9de61e78065e93846e8e7a4894a18bf before ae05340ccaa9d347fe85415609e075545bec589f
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.24; unaffected 0 before 2.6.24; unaffected 5.10.253 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.203 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.168 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.134 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.81 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.22 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.12 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

siemens-SADP

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