In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload nf…
CVE-2026-74579 · published 17 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.1 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 5.10
How to check
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How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
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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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/16b553c46e347bc9de9946c4960654d5884a86de
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/363c3a84a946d53e5e121c9f47c7c2b7d228c46b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/39e88f28fb32bf02bd4b525c24c842c9cff5663d
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ee7b3f813b11f28cd6efdf7f24d64b5a7fd4dc7
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/630295d5bba1d0e0f494cc459452eb0a0058c545
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8720df4504e0ed1781a702f65251bd47b3534d5e
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a375d8ace807767f29f276b681b6324c74929b1d
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b19b5d2e042c294e2cc1c908dc598f9d64015396
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