CVE-2026-74579 PUBLISHED

netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 17.08.2026 Updated: 17.08.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32 to b19b5d2e042c294e2cc1c908dc598f9d64015396 (excl.)
  • affected from a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32 to a375d8ace807767f29f276b681b6324c74929b1d (excl.)
  • affected from a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32 to 16b553c46e347bc9de9946c4960654d5884a86de (excl.)
  • affected from a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32 to 630295d5bba1d0e0f494cc459452eb0a0058c545 (excl.)
  • affected from a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32 to 39e88f28fb32bf02bd4b525c24c842c9cff5663d (excl.)
  • Version 5c2b4b4f9fa5b765b927e361e3d310bcb5773015 is affected
  • affected from 5.9.14 to 5.10 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.10 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.151 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.103 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.44 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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