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CVE

CVE-2026-74744

ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev
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CVE

CVE-2026-74744

ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev

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

ipvlan: inherit neededheadroom and neededtailroom from phy_dev

ipvlan devices inherit hardheaderlen from phydev during ipvlaninit(),

but leave neededheadroom and neededtailroom set to 0.

When the underlying phy_dev (or stacked lower device) 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() / ipvlanhardheader()

prepends header data or when lower devices append tailroom.

Fix this by:

  1. Inheriting neededheadroom and neededtailroom from phydev in ipvlaninit().
  2. Propagating neededheadroom and neededtailroom updates to attached ipvlans

   in ipvlandeviceevent() 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/5c2ca77212eb38559b0353b8363b7a84f4b019dd, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f33188457bbcc1b11ca87084037963c516ed3d9, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af602c4d0ee548da18e2409b4b4da1079625a372, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0fbe31f6b20ade0465130685859faa5c86fda59, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e16e960d55a40d36bd7c2494cc005e757dc9a1ef, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3c17ff65f54781cde696e16a6c577615ed735aa, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/74xxx/CVE-2026-74744.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74744, 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
0.00512%
EPSS Percentile
0.41801%
Introduced Version
2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269,3.19.0,6.2.0,6.7.0,6.13.0,6.19.0,0
Fix Available
e16e960d55a40d36bd7c2494cc005e757dc9a1ef,6.1.184,6.6.153,6.12.105,6.18.46,7.1.10,0:4.18.0-553.171.1.rt7.512.el8_10,0:4.18.0-553.171.1.el8_10,0:5.14.0-687.56.1.el9_8,6.12.0-211.64.1.el10_2,6.1.187-1,6.12.107-1~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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