CVE-2026-74743
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:
- Inheriting neededheadroom and neededtailroom from lowerdev in macvlan_init().
- Propagating neededheadroom and neededtailroom updates to attached macvlans
in macvlandeviceevent() when receiving NETDEVFEATCHANGE events.
Package Versions Affected
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Related Resources
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