CVE-2026-53211: netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register

Published Jun 25, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nftmetabridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register

NFTMETABRIIIFHWADDR declares its destination register with len = ETHALEN (6 bytes), which the register-init tracking rounds up to two 32-bit registers (8 bytes). nftmetabridgegeteval() then does memcpy(dest, brdev->devaddr, ETHALEN), writing only 6 bytes and leaving the upper 2 bytes of the second register as uninitialised nftdochain() stack. A downstream load of that register span leaks those stale bytes to userspace.

Zero the second register before the memcpy so the full declared span is written.

Affected Software

10 affected components
Linux Linux kernel
Linux Linux kernel>=6.18<6.18.36
Linux Linux kernel>=6.19<7.0.13
Linux Linux kernel=7.1-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=7.1-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=7.1-rc3
Linux Linux kernel=7.1-rc4
Linux Linux kernel=7.1-rc5
Linux Linux kernel=7.1-rc6
Linux Linux kernel=7.1-rc7

Event History

Jun 25, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:39 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:39 AM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:16 AM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

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