Medium [CVE-2026-53211] fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-53211 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat package: kernel.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR declares its destination register with len = ETH_ALEN (6 bytes), which the register-init tracking rounds up to two 32-bit registers (8 bytes). nft_meta_bridge_get_eval() then does memcpy(dest, br_dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN), writing only 6 bytes and leaving the upper 2 bytes of the second register as uninitialised nft_do_chain() 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.
The NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR register, intended for hardware address storage, is declared with a length of 6 bytes but is tracked as 8 bytes during initialization. When nft_meta_bridge_get_eval() writes to this register, only 6 bytes are written, leaving 2 bytes uninitialized.
A subsequent operation that loads this register can leak these uninitialized stale stack bytes to userspace, leading to information disclosure. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-131. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel.
Affected versions
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Mitigation
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