CVE-2026-74743 PUBLISHED

macvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 26.08.2026 Updated: 26.08.2026

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

macvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev

macvlan devices inherit hard_header_len from lowerdev during macvlan_init(), but leave needed_headroom and needed_tailroom 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 dev_hard_header() / macvlan_hard_header() prepends header data or when lower devices append tailroom.

Fix this by: 1. Inheriting needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev in macvlan_init(). 2. Propagating needed_headroom and needed_tailroom updates to attached macvlans in macvlan_device_event() when receiving NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE events.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b863ceb7ddcea8c55fcf1d7b2ac591d50aa7ed53 to 8cd90e850e434577bf6774778657d26d6995e53f (excl.)
  • affected from b863ceb7ddcea8c55fcf1d7b2ac591d50aa7ed53 to 28afc87bd8da0b3348bbbd834c8a89e83712cf5e (excl.)
  • affected from b863ceb7ddcea8c55fcf1d7b2ac591d50aa7ed53 to 8f6a05dbac05725e0786701eb04778c5bdbe4eaa (excl.)
  • affected from b863ceb7ddcea8c55fcf1d7b2ac591d50aa7ed53 to 96fa90b74385b7f2b0d97251dd43d5ee6ca44668 (excl.)
  • affected from b863ceb7ddcea8c55fcf1d7b2ac591d50aa7ed53 to bc9a00fb78e32bccc39d763bfd13a450705bac5d (excl.)
  • affected from b863ceb7ddcea8c55fcf1d7b2ac591d50aa7ed53 to cef51860becd9700217c81732ca1eb1ea6ed6fe1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.23 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.23 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.184 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.153 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.105 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.46 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.10 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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