CVE-2025-40279
net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
06 Dec 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62b656e43eaeae445a39cd8021a4f47065af4389https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73cc56c608c209d3d666cc571293b090a471da70