CVE-2025-40279Use of Uninitialized Resource in Linux

Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV3.2
No vector
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 6
Latest updateApr 13

Description

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 paddi

Affected Packages7 packages

Linuxlinux/linux_kernel4.0.05.15.197+4
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.159-1+2
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.15.0-173.183+2
CVEListV5linux/linux22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7+6

🔴Vulnerability Details

23
OSV
linux-raspi vulnerabilities2026-04-01
OSV
linux-raspi, linux-raspi-realtime vulnerabilities2026-04-01
OSV
linux-azure-6.8 vulnerabilities2026-03-25
OSV
linux-azure vulnerabilities2026-03-25
OSV
linux-intel-iot-realtime vulnerabilities2026-03-23

📋Vendor Advisories

25
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities2026-04-13
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities2026-04-09
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities2026-04-09
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities2026-04-01
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities2026-04-01