CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74744
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev
ipvlan devices inherit hard_header_len from phy_dev during ipvlan_init(),
but leave needed_headroom and needed_tailroom 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 dev_hard_header() / ipvlan_hard_header()
prepends header data or when lower devices append tailroom.
Fix this by:
1. Inheriting needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev in ipvlan_init().
2. Propagating needed_headroom and needed_tailroom updates to attached ipvlans
in ipvlan_device_event() when receiving NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE events.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c2ca77212eb38559b0353b8363b7a84f4b019dd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f33188457bbcc1b11ca87084037963c516ed3d9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af602c4d0ee548da18e2409b4b4da1079625a372 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0fbe31f6b20ade0465130685859faa5c86fda59 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e16e960d55a40d36bd7c2494cc005e757dc9a1ef git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3c17ff65f54781cde696e16a6c577615ed735aa git.kernel.org