{"id":"AZL-88851","summary":"CVE-2026-46132 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.141.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: rtnetlink: zero ifla_vf_broadcast to avoid stack infoleak in rtnl_fill_vfinfo\n\nrtnl_fill_vfinfo() declares struct ifla_vf_broadcast on the stack\nwithout initialisation:\n\n\tstruct ifla_vf_broadcast vf_broadcast;\n\nThe struct contains a single fixed 32-byte field:\n\n\t/* include/uapi/linux/if_link.h */\n\tstruct ifla_vf_broadcast {\n\t\t__u8 broadcast[32];\n\t};\n\nThe function then copies dev-\u003ebroadcast into it using dev-\u003eaddr_len\nas the length:\n\n\tmemcpy(vf_broadcast.broadcast, dev-\u003ebroadcast, dev-\u003eaddr_len);\n\nOn Ethernet devices (the overwhelming majority of SR-IOV NICs)\ndev-\u003eaddr_len is 6, so only the first 6 bytes of broadcast[] are\nwritten. The remaining 26 bytes retain whatever was previously on\nthe kernel stack. The full struct is then handed to userspace via:\n\n\tnla_put(skb, IFLA_VF_BROADCAST,\n\t\tsizeof(vf_broadcast), &vf_broadcast)\n\nleaking up to 26 bytes of uninitialised kernel stack per VF per\nRTM_GETLINK request, repeatable.\n\nThe other vf_* structs in the same function are explicitly zeroed\nfor exactly this reason - see the memset() calls for ivi,\nvf_vlan_info, node_guid and port_guid a few lines above.\nvf_broadcast was simply missed when it was added.\n\nReachability: any unprivileged local process can open AF_NETLINK /\nNETLINK_ROUTE without capabilities and send RTM_GETLINK with an\nIFLA_EXT_MASK attribute carrying RTEXT_FILTER_VF. The kernel walks\neach VF and emits IFLA_VF_BROADCAST, leaking 26 bytes of stack per\nVF per request. Stack residue at this call site can include return\naddresses and transient sensitive data; KASAN with stack\ninstrumentation, or KMSAN, will flag the nla_put() when reproduced.\n\nZero the on-stack struct before the partial memcpy, matching the\nexisting pattern used for the other vf_* structs in the same\nfunction.","modified":"2026-08-28T17:47:53.034502451Z","published":"2026-05-28T10:16:28Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-46132"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46132"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.6.141.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-88851.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}