Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses are initialised
Syed Faraz Abrar (@farazsth98) from Zellic, and Pumpkin (@u1f383) from DEVCORE Research Team working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative report that a RTM_GETNEIGH will return uninitalised data in the pad bytes of the ndmsg data.
Ensure we're initialising the netlink data to zero, in the link, addr and neigh response messages.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HAffected software
Source: the vendor's advisory (CNA). NVD analysis pending.
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- May 27, 2026
- Last modified
- Jun 25, 2026
- NVD status
- Undergoing Analysis