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.
History

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Weaknesses CWE-190
CWE-682

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First Time appeared Zephyrproject-rtos
Zephyrproject-rtos zephyr
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Zephyrproject-rtos zephyr

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Description 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.
Title ptp: Potential Denial of Service via PTP Interval Shift
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: zephyr

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-22T07:00:36.025Z

Reserved: 2026-03-27T23:46:06.666Z

Link: CVE-2026-5072

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-22T08:16:15.027

Modified: 2026-05-22T08:16:15.027

Link: CVE-2026-5072

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Updated: 2026-05-22T09:30:32Z