CVE-2026-52985

Updated on 24 Jun 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

netdevsim: zero initialize struct iphdr in dummy sk_buff

Syzbot reports a KMSAN uninit-value originating from nsim_dev_trap_skb_build, with the allocation also being performed in the same function.

Fix this by calling skb_put_zero instead of skb_put to guarantee zero initialization of the whole IP header.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel-uek @ 5.4.17 (+5 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Amazon Linux 2023 Planned
Debian 11 Planned
Debian 11 cloud Planned
Debian 12 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned