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CVE-2026-68288

Updated on 10 Aug 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

net: drop_monitor: fix info leak in NET_DM_ATTR_PAYLOAD

net_dm_packet_report_fill() and net_dm_hw_packet_report_fill() open code the NET_DM_ATTR_PAYLOAD attribute to avoid zeroing the packet payload before overwriting it with skb_copy_bits().

skb_put() reserves nla_total_size(payload_len), i.e. the header plus the NLA_ALIGN() padding, but only payload_len bytes are copied in. When payload_len is not a multiple of 4 the 1-3 padding bytes are never initialized and are leaked to user space inside the netlink message.

KMSAN confirms the leak for the software path when the packet payload length is not 4-byte aligned:

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter _copy_to_iter __skb_datagram_iter skb_copy_datagram_iter netlink_recvmsg sock_recvmsg __sys_recvfrom Uninit was created at: kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof __alloc_skb net_dm_packet_work Bytes 173-175 of 176 are uninitialized

Use __nla_reserve(), which sets up the attribute header and zeroes the padding, instead of open coding the attribute construction.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux @ 4.19.0 (+10 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU Released
36 kernels
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els20
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els21
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els23
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els22
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els14
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els18
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els16
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els15
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els17
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els19
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els24
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els25
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els26
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els27
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els28
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els29
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els30
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els31
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els32
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els35
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els34
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els1
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els2
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els3
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els4
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els5
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els6
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els7
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els8
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els9
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els10
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els11
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els12
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els13
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els14
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els13
AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU Released
19 kernels
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els1
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els2
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els3
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els4
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els5
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els6
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els7
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els1
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els2
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els3
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els4
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els5
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els6
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els7
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els8
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els10
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els11
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els12
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els13
Debian 12 Planned —
Debian 13 Planned —
Ubuntu 26.04 In Rollout
2 kernels
  • 7.0.0-31.31
  • 7.0.0-34.34