CVE-2026-43085
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.
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Affected products
10cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 9 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=2.6.23.1,<5.10.258
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.23:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
Patches
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/15d209bccf9273b4a8b4e579ba0e92d065b6ec8cnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f3083aec8836213da441270cdb1ab612dd82cf4nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/296f18e1c3a87c915a92ed27832d5040a22d1072nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/368c22aea490f6f50df831b4f9e3623787686c5bnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/57cc509d82b46150a11dcecc8b25eaa177eda34dnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e2182865de781c41ab16b7985e9d26dcefea867nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1399632ba255d2e02c757af5d9f5d9279ce168cnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d552bcfca323d175664d7444989b04f55666978anvdPatch
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