CVE-2026-40198: perlPackages.NetCIDRLite, backport upstream fix (no version bump)

[jasonodoom]

⚠️ EXPERIMENTAL source-backport — NOT a version bump

This PR authors the upstream fix as an in-tree patch against the current nixpkgs version (no version bump). An agent generated it; a cross-family reviewer verified it transcribes the upstream commit, and a cert proved the bundled reproducer goes red→green. A human maintainer must still confirm sufficiency before merging:

• This applies the COMPLETE upstream fix, not one of several required commits.
• The backported hunk matches the upstream fix commit(s):
  • stigtsp/Net-CIDR-Lite@25d65f8
• Reviewed the cert evidence (reproducer red→green) for CVE-2026-40198.

Opened as a draft deliberately — mark Ready-for-review only after the boxes above are checked.

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Evidence: CVE-2026-40198 (human-review-required) trace bundle 72684a471d4de3b3

• Rekor entry: https://rekor.sigstore.dev/api/v1/log/entries?logIndex=2727559626
• Workflow identity: https://github.com/Ad-Astra-Computing/trace/.github/workflows/steward.yml@refs/heads/main
• OIDC issuer: https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com
• Cert run: https://github.com/Ad-Astra-Computing/trace/actions/runs/33976732504
• nixpkgs rev: ff166608d2eb81d041faf0e8d39ca6a02c9fb24b

Verify locally

gh run download <run-id> --name steward-smoke-<bundle> --dir ./artifact
trace bundle verify ./artifact  # bundle_id=72684a471d4de3b3

Generated by trace.

[jasonodoom]

Comparison against the upstream fix

Transcription lane (this PR's payload). The added and removed code lines of the embedded patch (lib/Net/CIDR/Lite.pm) are identical to the upstream fix commit Net-CIDR-Lite 25d65f85, normalized for whitespace. The cross-family Reviewer attested this; the check here was recomputed independently against the bundle's upstream-fix.patch. The Linux cert (trace run 33976732504) built perlPackages.NetCIDRLite at the pinned revision with and without the patch: the unpatched arm accepted the short uncompressed IPv6 address and fired the discriminator, the patched arm rejected it.

Blind-authoring lane (separate measurement, not this payload). When the same CVE was given to claude-opus-4-8 with only the vulnerability description and the pre-fix source, never the upstream patch, the graded result against the human fix was GOLD: an equivalent group-count check written as a lower bound instead of an equality. Report: trace data/reports/authoring-accuracy-vs-human-2026-09-04.json.

This is one of the cases where the blind lane got the fix right unaided. The PR ships the transcribed upstream fix because that is what the Reviewer can attest line by line.