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netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register
authorDavide Ornaghi <d.ornaghi97@gmail.com>
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:39:13 +0000 (12:39 +0200)
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:32 +0000 (18:00 +0200)
commitc7d573551f9286100a055ef696cde6af54549677
tree3b55982a657bd6eaadfa6632b3acc0ec7c1f8dc4
parentab185e0c4fb82dfba6fb86f8271e06f931d9c64c
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.

Fixes: cbd2257dc96e ("netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: introduce NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Davide Ornaghi <d.ornaghi97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
net/bridge/netfilter/nft_meta_bridge.c