# CVE-2026-98584: net/sched: fix potential stack infoleak in em\_text\_dump()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.18.55, 7.2.9
- Published: 2026-10-18 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from b04202d6065cba5dfd51fb9866400b25573eac67, fixed in 9923e1c537f91f3530b52d4efce85f3d9c131bf8; from b04202d6065cba5dfd51fb9866400b25573eac67, fixed in 0b160417826d22f24fc31a5b9cfae3b14aa70f76; from b04202d6065cba5dfd51fb9866400b25573eac67, fixed in 9c572a83037a7dcd653ba3a9cc468c16b857d0c9
- Linux: 6.17
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.17.0, fixed in 6.18.55; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.9

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: fix potential stack infoleak in em_text_dump() em_text_dump() allocates struct tcf_em_text on the stack without zeroing it. strscpy() writes the algorithm name and a NUL terminator into conf.algo[], leaving the remaining bytes uninitialised. nla_put_nohdr() then copies the full struct to the netlink response. KMSAN on Linux 7.2-rc6 reports two kernel-infoleak splats from this path, one triggered via "tc filter show" and one via a raw RTM_GETTFILTER dump: BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter+0x1c9/0x2620 nla_put_nohdr+0x83/0x130 em_text_dump+0x291/0x550 Local variable conf created at: em_text_dump+0x5d/0x550 Bytes 168-179 of 199 are uninitialized I am not certain whether this constitutes a real security problem in practice: the test was conducted in a controlled KMSAN environment and the leaked stack bytes may or may not carry sensitive data on actual production kernels. I am reporting it because KMSAN flagged it as a kernel-infoleak and the fix is straightforward. I can provide a userspace reproducer on request. The original code used strncpy() which zero-pads to the destination size. Commit b04202d6065c ("net/sched: replace strncpy with strscpy") replaced it with strscpy(), which does not pad, creating this condition. Zero-initialising the struct closes it.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (6.18.55, 7.2.9) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9923e1c537f91f3530b52d4efce85f3d9c131bf8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b160417826d22f24fc31a5b9cfae3b14aa70f76
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c572a83037a7dcd653ba3a9cc468c16b857d0c9

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