Bug 2516656 (CVE-2026-72450) - CVE-2026-72450 kernel: xfrm: validate selector family and prefixlen during match
Summary: CVE-2026-72450 kernel: xfrm: validate selector family and prefixlen during match
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72450
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-19 17:12 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:24:16 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: validate selector family and prefixlen during match

syzbot reported a shift-out-of-bounds in xfrm_selector_match()
due to AF_UNSPEC selector with large prefixlen (e.g. 128) matched
against IPv4 flow (when XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC is set).

Fix this by:

- Rejecting mismatched families in xfrm_selector_match.
- Returning false in addr4_match if prefixlen > 32.
- Returning false in addr_match if prefixlen > 128 (prevents overflow).


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