CVE-2025-40279

unknown
Published โ€” ยท Modified โ€”
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.159-1
debian debianbullseyefixed6.1.159-1~deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed6.17.9-1
debian debiansidfixed6.17.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.12.63-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.