Bug 2517319 (CVE-2026-74579) - CVE-2026-74579 kernel: netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload
Summary: CVE-2026-74579 kernel: netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial fie...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74579
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-17 05:41 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 11:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-17 05:41:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload

nft_payload_offload_mask() builds the offload match mask for a payload
expression that covers only part of a header field.  For a partial IPv6
address match (field_len = 16, priv_len = 1) that shift is 1 << 120, which
is undefined on the 32-bit int operand.  It also trims only one word, so
the remaining words stay 0xffffffff (and when priv_len is a multiple of 4
the trim is skipped entirely), leaving the mask covering more bytes than
the rule matches.

  UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/netfilter/nft_payload.c:278:20
  shift exponent 120 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
  ...

The match is byte-granular and struct nft_data is zero-initialised, so the
correct mask is simply the first priv_len bytes set to 0xff. Set those
bytes directly and drop the word/shift trimming; this removes the undefined
shift and no longer over-masks the trailing bytes.


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