CVE-2026-43040

Name	CVE-2026-43040
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: ndisc: fix ndisc_ra_useropt to initialize nduseropt_padX fields to zero to prevent an info-leak When processing Router Advertisements with user options the kernel builds an RTM_NEWNDUSEROPT netlink message. The nduseroptmsg struct has three padding fields that are never zeroed and can leak kernel data The fix is simple, just zeroes the padding fields.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4561-1, DSA-6243-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.251-5	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.170-3	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.172-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.86-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.88-1	fixed
	forky, sid	7.0.7-1	fixed
linux-6.1 (PTS)	bullseye (security)	6.1.172-1~deb11u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.170-1	DSA-6243-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.85-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.19.12-1
linux-6.1	source	bullseye	6.1.170-1~deb11u1	DLA-4561-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/ae05340ccaa9d347fe85415609e075545bec589f (7.0-rc7)