CVE-2026-74544

net/sched: cls_u32: validate offshift to prevent shift-out-of-bounds

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Aug 15, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: cls_u32: validate offshift to prevent shift-out-of-bounds

u32_change() copies the user-provided tc_u32_sel.offshift (unsigned char, 0-255) into the kernel knode object without bounds validation. When a packet later hits u32_classify() with TC_U32_VAROFFSET set, it evaluates `ntohs(offmask & *data) >> offshift` where the left operand is a 16-bit value promoted to a 32-bit int. Any offshift >= 32 is undefined behavior per C11 6.5.7p3, triggerable by an unprivileged user via user/network namespaces.

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/sched/cls_u32.c:236:43 shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type int

Fix this by rejecting offshift >= 16 during filter creation in u32_change().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 7fd5b2287e5cf33e114fb7f0cef781a546039757Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 724c8edbacf1259988829cb9967f751222121d8aAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 006a4598da9a6b02e0ddc3ca5042b97224774364Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 9990cac513e8b191de2ee589051ea7ebf3cee940Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 313cb9ffc4101a885d791facf4b5ea3d5e06144dAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before aef96eead2860cbfa371e4471d4f04412213b958Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.8 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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