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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74577" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:28:14.408Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:39:14.107Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74577" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74577.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74577" title: "net: mpls: initialize rtm_tos in mpls_getroute()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: mpls: initialize rtm_tos in mpls_getroute()\n\nmpls_getroute() builds the RTM_NEWROUTE reply to an RTM_GETROUTE\nrequest by filling a struct rtmsg allocated from an skb whose data\narea is not zeroed (alloc_skb(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, ...)). It sets every\nfield of the header except rtm_tos:\n\n\tr = nlmsg_data(nlh);\n\tr-\u003ertm_family\t = AF_MPLS;\n\tr-\u003ertm_dst_len\t= 20;\n\tr-\u003ertm_src_len\t= 0;\n\tr-\u003ertm_table\t= RT_TABLE_MAIN;\n\tr-\u003ertm_type\t= RTN_UNICAST;\n\tr-\u003ertm_scope\t= RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE;\n\tr-\u003ertm_protocol = rt-\u003ert_protocol;\n\tr-\u003ertm_flags\t= 0;\n\nstruct rtmsg has no padding, so the one uninitialised byte rtm_tos\n(offset 3) is copied straight to user space on recvmsg(), leaking a\nbyte of uninitialised heap memory. This is in contrast to\nmpls_dump_route(), which fills the very same header and does set\nrtm_tos = 0.\n\nInitialize rtm_tos to 0, matching mpls_dump_route().\n\nReproduced with KMSAN by adding an MPLS route and issuing a\nnon-RTM_F_FIB_MATCH RTM_GETROUTE for its label:\n\n BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter+0x36c/0x33f0\n _copy_to_iter+0x36c/0x33f0\n __skb_datagram_iter+0x196/0x12c0\n skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x5b/0x210\n netlink_recvmsg+0x37b/0xef0\n ...\n Uninit was created at:\n __alloc_skb+0x8ca/0x10e0\n mpls_getroute+0x1280/0x3a40\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x1138/0x15a0\n ...\n Byte 19 of 64 is uninitialized\n\n(byte 19 = nlmsghdr(16) + rtmsg offset 3 = rtm_tos)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"397fc9e5cefee0c33b86811fbddb0decb7288c52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"248718fd88b146d8bdc7610ecd1eb4cd16e0b5a1"},{"version":"397fc9e5cefee0c33b86811fbddb0decb7288c52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"466b474a8deb0c93b5280c6d261e5eda6482eca7"},{"version":"397fc9e5cefee0c33b86811fbddb0decb7288c52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba56f88aab18d982f2a21f11390f4d8a8897782a"},{"version":"397fc9e5cefee0c33b86811fbddb0decb7288c52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95651461cf77cc6590fa08c87667717e5dcfa55d"},{"version":"397fc9e5cefee0c33b86811fbddb0decb7288c52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fea5ff0eb4aa7e951bb3d380248566c473aa377"},{"version":"397fc9e5cefee0c33b86811fbddb0decb7288c52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5cdd2407dd890f741f59b8367e4c6c101cce154"},{"version":"397fc9e5cefee0c33b86811fbddb0decb7288c52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2dc2fffc704a4365cae1aae078ba62223aaeff93"},{"version":"397fc9e5cefee0c33b86811fbddb0decb7288c52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"295dd295e2137e10e9a5b1891d97e0f08de76f03"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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