# 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-2026-43085"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T07:40:19.915Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:19:02.526Z"
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-2026-43085"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43085.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43085"
title: "netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator\n\nWhen batching multiple NFLOG messages (inst-\u003eqlen \u003e 1), __nfulnl_send()\nappends an NLMSG_DONE terminator with sizeof(struct nfgenmsg) payload via\nnlmsg_put(), but never initializes the nfgenmsg bytes. The nlmsg_put()\nhelper only zeroes alignment padding after the payload, not the payload\nitself, so four bytes of stale kernel heap data are leaked to userspace\nin the NLMSG_DONE message body.\n\nUse nfnl_msg_put() to build the NLMSG_DONE terminator, which initializes\nthe nfgenmsg payload via nfnl_fill_hdr(), consistent with how\n__build_packet_message() already constructs NFULNL_MSG_PACKET headers."
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