ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74744
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.51 % · percentile 44 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

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

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269 < af602c4d0ee548da18e2409b4b4da1079625a372 ; affected 2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269 < f3c17ff65f54781cde696e16a6c577615ed735aa ; affected 2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269 < c0fbe31f6b20ade0465130685859faa5c86fda59 ; affected 2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269 < 5f33188457bbcc1b11ca87084037963c516ed3d9 ; affected 2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269 < 5c2ca77212eb38559b0353b8363b7a84f4b019dd ; affected 2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269 < e16e960d55a40d36bd7c2494cc005e757dc9a1ef
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.19 ; unaffected 0 < 3.19 ; unaffected 6.1.184 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.153 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.105 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.46 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD