CVE-2026-31428 (GCVE-0-2026-31428)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 13:40 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:08
VLAI
Title
netfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix uninitialized padding leak in NFULA_PAYLOAD
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix uninitialized padding leak in NFULA_PAYLOAD __build_packet_message() manually constructs the NFULA_PAYLOAD netlink attribute using skb_put() and skb_copy_bits(), bypassing the standard nla_reserve()/nla_put() helpers. While nla_total_size(data_len) bytes are allocated (including NLA alignment padding), only data_len bytes of actual packet data are copied. The trailing nla_padlen(data_len) bytes (1-3 when data_len is not 4-byte aligned) are never initialized, leaking stale heap contents to userspace via the NFLOG netlink socket. Replace the manual attribute construction with nla_reserve(), which handles the tailroom check, header setup, and padding zeroing via __nla_reserve(). The subsequent skb_copy_bits() fills in the payload data on top of the properly initialized attribute.
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Linux Linux Affected: df6fb868d6118686805c2fa566e213a8f31c8e4f , < 7f3e5d72455936f42709116fabeca3bb216cda62 (git)
Affected: df6fb868d6118686805c2fa566e213a8f31c8e4f , < 21d8efda029948d3666b0db5afcc0d36c0984aae (git)
Affected: df6fb868d6118686805c2fa566e213a8f31c8e4f , < fc961dd7272b5e4a462999635e44a4770d7f2482 (git)
Affected: df6fb868d6118686805c2fa566e213a8f31c8e4f , < a8365d1064ded323797c5e28e91070c52f44b76c (git)
Affected: df6fb868d6118686805c2fa566e213a8f31c8e4f , < a2f6ff3444b663d6cfa63eadd61327a18592885a (git)
Affected: df6fb868d6118686805c2fa566e213a8f31c8e4f , < c9f6c51d36482805ac3ffadb9663fe775a13e926 (git)
Affected: df6fb868d6118686805c2fa566e213a8f31c8e4f , < 7eff72968161fb8ddb26113344de3b92fb7d7ef5 (git)
Affected: df6fb868d6118686805c2fa566e213a8f31c8e4f , < 52025ebaa29f4eb4ed8bf92ce83a68f24ab7fdf7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.24
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.24 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.253 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.168 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.131 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.80 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.21 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.11 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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