Vulnerability in Linux
CVE-2025-40279
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.
EPSS: 0.002 (7.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Linux — versions 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae, 4.0, 0