CVE-2026-16514 Out-of-bounds read in gPTP Announce path-trace validation via unvalidated stepsRemoved

gptpmiqualifyannounce in subsys/net/l2/ethernet/gptp/gptpmi.c walks the Path Trace TLV of a received IEEE 802.1AS Announce message, comparing each clock identity against the local one. The loop bound was taken solely from the attacker-controlled wire field announce-stepsremoved accepted up to 254...