# CVE-2026-45930: net: mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses are initialised

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-27 · Updated: 2026-06-19

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.15

## Description

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.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b37da3ac099e145bcd3be82c745a8d335772e3af
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4f840437e7641764de15f2de951ac8335d641f1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/963537a26fd892f7e414a091f807b44aeee97a7d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/976612471a9e6ead6ceffc241e4d0a1aac90b36a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54ed418de62a148a655262da682a050fa05f7924
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fb6a97c86abb8592158088afaea0eb464cf9de1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6a9bc544b675d8b5180f2718ec985ad267b5cbf

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