ptp: Potential Denial of Service via PTP Interval Shift
A bitwise shift vulnerability in Zephyr's PTP subsystem allows a remote attacker to cause undefined behavior and potential system crashes. An attacker sends a crafted PTP_MSG_MANAGEMENT message to set an unvalidated negative log_announce_interval value in the port's data set. When a subsequent PTP_MSG_ANNOUNCE message is processed, port_timer_set_timeout_random computes a timeout as NSEC_PER_SEC >> -log_seconds; if the attacker-supplied value is sufficiently negative (e.g., -127), the shift amount exceeds the 64-bit integer width, triggering undefined behavior in C. This can cause a system crash via a compiler-generated illegal instruction trap on some architectures, or produce an erroneous zero timeout leading to resource starvation loops or other logical errors.
CVE-2026-5072
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-5072
Zephyr
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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Structured affected-version data
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[
{
"repo": "https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr",
"vendor": "zephyrproject-rtos",
"product": "Zephyr",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "*",
"lessThan": "4.3.1",
"versionType": "git"
}
],
"packageName": "Zephyr",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-5072
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- Event
- #32282 · Revision 1
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