CVE-2026-43085

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator When batching multiple NFLOG messages (inst->qlen > 1), __nfulnl_send() appends an NLMSG_DONE terminator with sizeof(struct nfgenmsg) payload via nlmsg_put(), but never initializes the nfgenmsg bytes. The nlmsg_put() helper only zeroes alignment padding after the payload, not the payload itself, so four bytes of stale kernel heap data are leaked to userspace in the NLMSG_DONE message body. Use nfnl_msg_put() to build the NLMSG_DONE terminator, which initializes the nfgenmsg payload via nfnl_fill_hdr(), consistent with how __build_packet_message() already constructs NFULNL_MSG_PACKET headers.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d552bcfca323d175664d7444989b04f55666978a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1399632ba255d2e02c757af5d9f5d9279ce168c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/368c22aea490f6f50df831b4f9e3623787686c5b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f3083aec8836213da441270cdb1ab612dd82cf4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15d209bccf9273b4a8b4e579ba0e92d065b6ec8c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-06

Updated: 2026-05-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018