# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-52937"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T07:14:27.305Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:41:39.695Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-52937"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52937.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52937"
title: "tap: fix stack info leak in tap_ioctl() SIOCGIFHWADDR"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntap: fix stack info leak in tap_ioctl() SIOCGIFHWADDR\n\nIn the SIOCGIFHWADDR path, tap_ioctl() copies 16 bytes of an\nuninitialised on-stack struct sockaddr_storage to userspace via\nifr_hwaddr, but netif_get_mac_address() only writes sa_family and\ndev-\u003eaddr_len (6 for Ethernet) bytes, leaving sa_data[6..13] uninitialised.\n\nThose 8 trailing bytes leak kernel stack contents; SIOCGIFHWADDR on a\nmacvtap chardev returns kernel .text and direct-map pointers, defeating\nKASLR.\n\nInitialise ss at declaration."
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