CVE-2025-40279 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-40279

net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae, 4.0, 0, 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.117, 6.12.59, 6.17.9, 6.18

Timeline

Official Publish: December 6th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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