Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 6, 2026
CVE-2026-98322
CVE-2026-98322
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nft_nat: fully initialise new_addr in netmap setup
nft_nat_setup_netmap() builds the mapped address in an on-stack union nf_inet_addr. For an IPv4 mapping it writes only the 4-byte .ip member and the loop runs a single 32-bit iteration, but it then copies the whole 16-byte union into range->min_addr and range->max_addr, so the upper 12 bytes reach nf_nat_setup_info() uninitialised.
KMSAN reports an uninit-value in nf_nat_setup_info() reached from nft_nat_eval(). The IPv6 path fills all 16 bytes and is not affected.
Zero-initialise new_addr.
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ce42c7b84032335abff9eac43762e4ca8224451nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/161f5860c92a8ec80b6bdff16e79d70dcd8afc5anvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c43f5db482f74b41987c39c9c375a5e767556ebnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/29365695842db0a97b701a43a09fad1b4f7ecf3envd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b9380c38c2fd2189416fa602bdbc5c8523b84b2nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d313499df66159b4b7971d760d16729598ab7e5anvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4982c489ee359162eee3ece1fb36082648464a5nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb2030137dba3b59cbb5057a33af70488d6bc231nvd
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