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Tracker / CVE-2026-43040

CVE-2026-43040

High 7.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: ndisc: fix ndisc_ra_useropt to initialize nduseropt_padX fields to zero to prevent an info-leak When processing Router Advertisements with user options the kernel builds an RTM_NEWNDUSEROPT netlink message. The nduseroptmsg struct has three padding fields that are never zeroed and can leak kernel data The fix is simple, just zeroes the padding fields.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.24 → 5.10.253
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.203
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.168
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.22
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.12
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.134
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.81

Analysis

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