CVE-2026-98584

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: fix potential stack infoleak in em_text_dump() em_text_dump() allocates struct tcf_em_text on the stack without zeroing it. strscpy() writes the algorithm name and a NUL terminator into conf.algo[], leaving the remaining bytes uninitialised. nla_put_nohdr() then copies the full struct to the netlink response. KMSAN on Linux 7.2-rc6 reports two kernel-infoleak splats from this path, one triggered via "tc filter show" and one via a raw RTM_GETTFILTER dump: BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter+0x1c9/0x2620 nla_put_nohdr+0x83/0x130 em_text_dump+0x291/0x550 Local variable conf created at: em_text_dump+0x5d/0x550 Bytes 168-179 of 199 are uninitialized I am not certain whether this constitutes a real security problem in practice: the test was conducted in a controlled KMSAN environment and the leaked stack bytes may or may not carry sensitive data on actual production kernels. I am reporting it because KMSAN flagged it as a kernel-infoleak and the fix is straightforward. I can provide a userspace reproducer on request. The original code used strncpy() which zero-pads to the destination size. Commit b04202d6065c ("net/sched: replace strncpy with strscpy") replaced it with strscpy(), which does not pad, creating this condition. Zero-initialising the struct closes it.

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-10-18 16:17:10.983000

Last modified

2026-10-19 10:19:19.270000

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  "id": "CVE-2026-98584",
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-10-18T16:17:10.983",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T10:19:19.270",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: fix potential stack infoleak in em_text_dump()\n\nem_text_dump() allocates struct tcf_em_text on the stack without zeroing\nit.  strscpy() writes the algorithm name and a NUL terminator into\nconf.algo[], leaving the remaining bytes uninitialised.  nla_put_nohdr()\nthen copies the full struct to the netlink response.\n\nKMSAN on Linux 7.2-rc6 reports two kernel-infoleak splats from this path,\none triggered via \"tc filter show\" and one via a raw RTM_GETTFILTER dump:\n\n  BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter+0x1c9/0x2620\n    nla_put_nohdr+0x83/0x130\n    em_text_dump+0x291/0x550\n  Local variable conf created at: em_text_dump+0x5d/0x550\n  Bytes 168-179 of 199 are uninitialized\n\nI am not certain whether this constitutes a real security problem in\npractice: the test was conducted in a controlled KMSAN environment and\nthe leaked stack bytes may or may not carry sensitive data on actual\nproduction kernels.  I am reporting it because KMSAN flagged it as a\nkernel-infoleak and the fix is straightforward.  I can provide a\nuserspace reproducer on request.\n\nThe original code used strncpy() which zero-pads to the destination size.\nCommit b04202d6065c (\"net/sched: replace strncpy with strscpy\") replaced\nit with strscpy(), which does not pad, creating this condition.\nZero-initialising the struct closes it."
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