# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43026"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:27.854Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:18:39.379Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43026"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43026.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43026"
title: "netfilter: ctnetlink: zero expect NAT fields when CTA_EXPECT_NAT absent"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ctnetlink: zero expect NAT fields when CTA_EXPECT_NAT absent\n\nctnetlink_alloc_expect() allocates expectations from a non-zeroing\nslab cache via nf_ct_expect_alloc().  When CTA_EXPECT_NAT is not\npresent in the netlink message, saved_addr and saved_proto are\nnever initialized.  Stale data from a previous slab occupant can\nthen be dumped to userspace by ctnetlink_exp_dump_expect(), which\nchecks these fields to decide whether to emit CTA_EXPECT_NAT.\n\nThe safe sibling nf_ct_expect_init(), used by the packet path,\nexplicitly zeroes these fields.\n\nZero saved_addr, saved_proto and dir in the else branch, guarded\nby IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_NAT) since these fields only exist when\nNAT is enabled.\n\nConfirmed by priming the expect slab with NAT-bearing expectations,\nfreeing them, creating a new expectation without CTA_EXPECT_NAT,\nand observing that the ctnetlink dump emits a spurious\nCTA_EXPECT_NAT containing stale data from the prior allocation."
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