<Vulnerability name="CVE-2026-45930">
    <DocumentDistribution xml:lang="en">Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.</DocumentDistribution>
    <PublicDate>2026-05-27T00:00:00</PublicDate>
    <Bugzilla id="2482010" url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482010" xml:lang="en:us">
kernel: net: mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses are initialised
    </Bugzilla>
    <CWE>CWE-824</CWE>
    <Details xml:lang="en:us" source="Mitre">
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses are initialised

Syed Faraz Abrar (@farazsth98) from Zellic, and Pumpkin (@u1f383) from
DEVCORE Research Team working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
report that a RTM_GETNEIGH will return uninitalised data in the pad
bytes of the ndmsg data.

Ensure we're initialising the netlink data to zero, in the link, addr
and neigh response messages.
    </Details>
    <Details xml:lang="en:us" source="Red Hat">
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Multi-Channel Transport Protocol (MCTP) networking implementation. When processing a RTM_GETNEIGH request, the system may return uninitialized data in the ndmsg pad bytes. This can allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, leading to information disclosure.
    </Details>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>kernel</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>kernel</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>kernel</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>kernel-rt</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>kernel</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>kernel-rt</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>kernel</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>kernel-rt</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <References xml:lang="en:us">
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45930
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45930
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026052726-CVE-2026-45930-1ec6@gregkh/T
    </References>
</Vulnerability>