CVE-2025-40279

CVE-2025-40279

published December 7, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 8.9th percentile
Published
2025-12-07T03:15Z
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 DEC 21:51Z
    net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak
    cvelistv5