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CVE-2026-43088

net: af_key: zero aligned sockaddr tail in PF_KEY exports

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

net: af_key: zero aligned sockaddr tail in PF_KEY exports

PF_KEY export paths use `pfkey_sockaddr_size()` when reserving sockaddr
payload space, so IPv6 addresses occupy 32 bytes on the wire. However,
`pfkey_sockaddr_fill()` initializes only the first 28 bytes of
`struct sockaddr_in6`, leaving the final 4 aligned bytes uninitialized.

Not every PF_KEY message is affected. The state and policy dump builders
already zero the whole message buffer before filling the sockaddr
payloads. Keep the fix to the export paths that still append aligned
sockaddr payloads with plain `skb_put()`:

  - `SADB_ACQUIRE`
  - `SADB_X_NAT_T_NEW_MAPPING`
  - `SADB_X_MIGRATE`

Fix those paths by clearing only the aligned sockaddr tail after
`pfkey_sockaddr_fill()`.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch das CVE Programm von einer CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) (Unstrukturiert).
HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version < 11cbf294bac623bd57296f231199193087f57b4a
Status affected
Version 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version < edd446ee7cd3d02cac246168063d5b3e9ea68460
Status affected
Version 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version < 2e74f974359b5382ecbe8536abbb5b837eb6c724
Status affected
Version 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version < 426c355742f02cf743b347d9d7dbdc1bfbfa31ef
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 2.6.12
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 2.6.12
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.88
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.30
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.19.*
Version 6.19.14
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.0
Status unaffected
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