CVE-2026-74744

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74744
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74744.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-74744
Downstream
Published
2026-08-26T14:36:54Z
Modified
2026-08-28T03:34:53Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev
Details

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.
Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/74xxx/CVE-2026-74744.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269
Fixed
af602c4d0ee548da18e2409b4b4da1079625a372
Fixed
f3c17ff65f54781cde696e16a6c577615ed735aa
Fixed
c0fbe31f6b20ade0465130685859faa5c86fda59
Fixed
5f33188457bbcc1b11ca87084037963c516ed3d9
Fixed
5c2ca77212eb38559b0353b8363b7a84f4b019dd
Fixed
e16e960d55a40d36bd7c2494cc005e757dc9a1ef

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74744.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.19.0
Fixed
6.1.184
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.153
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.105
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.46
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.10

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74744.json"