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CVE

CVE-2026-74743

macvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev
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CVE

CVE-2026-74743

macvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev

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

macvlan: inherit neededheadroom and neededtailroom from lowerdev

macvlan devices inherit hardheaderlen from lowerdev during macvlan_init(),

but leave neededheadroom and neededtailroom set to 0.

When the underlying lowerdev requires extra headroom or tailroom for

headers/trailers (e.g. macsec, ipsec, wireguard, tunnels, or veth with rx

headroom), upper layers calculating packet headroom and tailroom fail to

reserve sufficient space.

This can result in reallocation overhead, skb headroom underflows, or KASAN

slab-use-after-free crashes when devhardheader() / macvlanhardheader()

prepends header data or when lower devices append tailroom.

Fix this by:

  1. Inheriting neededheadroom and neededtailroom from lowerdev in macvlan_init().
  2. Propagating neededheadroom and neededtailroom updates to attached macvlans

   in macvlandeviceevent() when receiving NETDEVFEATCHANGE events.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
9.8
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28afc87bd8da0b3348bbbd834c8a89e83712cf5e, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b0eb3e0f363ca79a3af9efd2e87c6258f11da2b, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cd90e850e434577bf6774778657d26d6995e53f, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f6a05dbac05725e0786701eb04778c5bdbe4eaa, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fa90b74385b7f2b0d97251dd43d5ee6ca44668, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc9a00fb78e32bccc39d763bfd13a450705bac5d, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2ef3f134b069c54b9cc95cce1a16c38c4939336, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cef51860becd9700217c81732ca1eb1ea6ed6fe1, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/74xxx/CVE-2026-74743.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74743, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Severity

9.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Base CVSS
9.8
EPSS Probability
0.00734%
EPSS Percentile
0.52978%
Introduced Version
b863ceb7ddcea8c55fcf1d7b2ac591d50aa7ed53,2.6.23,5.11.0,5.16.0,6.2.0,6.7.0,6.13.0,6.19.0,0
Fix Available
cef51860becd9700217c81732ca1eb1ea6ed6fe1,5.10.271,5.15.222,6.1.184,6.6.153,6.12.105,6.18.46,7.1.10,6.1.187-1,6.12.107-1~deb12u1,6.12.105-1,6.8.0-1036.39,0:6.12.0-207.111.5.1.el10uek,0:6.12.0-207.111.5.1.el9uek,1:6.1.186-228.374.amzn2023,1:1.0-0.amzn2023,1:6.18.48-107.148.amzn2023

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