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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74579" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-17T05:28:27.768Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:57.728Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74579" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74579.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74579" title: "netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload\n\nnft_payload_offload_mask() builds the offload match mask for a payload\nexpression that covers only part of a header field. For a partial IPv6\naddress match (field_len = 16, priv_len = 1) that shift is 1 \u003c\u003c 120, which\nis undefined on the 32-bit int operand. It also trims only one word, so\nthe remaining words stay 0xffffffff (and when priv_len is a multiple of 4\nthe trim is skipped entirely), leaving the mask covering more bytes than\nthe rule matches.\n\n UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/netfilter/nft_payload.c:278:20\n shift exponent 120 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'\n ...\n\nThe match is byte-granular and struct nft_data is zero-initialised, so the\ncorrect mask is simply the first priv_len bytes set to 0xff. Set those\nbytes directly and drop the word/shift trimming; this removes the undefined\nshift and no longer over-masks the trailing bytes." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ee7b3f813b11f28cd6efdf7f24d64b5a7fd4dc7"},{"version":"a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8720df4504e0ed1781a702f65251bd47b3534d5e"},{"version":"a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"363c3a84a946d53e5e121c9f47c7c2b7d228c46b"},{"version":"a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b19b5d2e042c294e2cc1c908dc598f9d64015396"},{"version":"a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a375d8ace807767f29f276b681b6324c74929b1d"},{"version":"a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16b553c46e347bc9de9946c4960654d5884a86de"},{"version":"a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"630295d5bba1d0e0f494cc459452eb0a0058c545"},{"version":"a5d45bc0dc50f9dd83703510e9804d813a9cac32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39e88f28fb32bf02bd4b525c24c842c9cff5663d"},{"version":"5c2b4b4f9fa5b765b927e361e3d310bcb5773015","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.9.14","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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