In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tap: fix stack info leak in tap_ioctl() SIOCGIFHWADDR
In the SIOCGIFHWADDR path, tapioctl() copies 16 bytes of an uninitialised on-stack struct sockaddrstorage to userspace via ifrhwaddr, but netifgetmacaddress() only writes safamily and dev->addrlen (6 for Ethernet) bytes, leaving sa_data[6..13] uninitialised.
Those 8 trailing bytes leak kernel stack contents; SIOCGIFHWADDR on a macvtap chardev returns kernel .text and direct-map pointers, defeating KASLR.
Initialise ss at declaration.
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