CVE-2026-43085

CVE-2026-43085

Medium · published May 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00171 · 6.1th percentile
Published
2026-05-06T14:16Z
Affected products (15)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 2.6.23.1, < 5.10.2585.10.258
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.2095.15.209
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1756.1.175
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1366.6.136
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.836.12.83
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.246.18.24
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.146.19.14
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (11)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAY 07:40Z
    netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator
    cvelistv5