CVE-2026-74743

CVE-2026-74743

Critical · published August 26, 2026

CVSS v3.1
9.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
44.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.8 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00536 · 44.4th percentile
Published
2026-08-26T19:16Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 AUG 06:52Z
    EPSS moved — → 1%
    epss
  • 26 AUG 14:36Z
    macvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev
    cvelistv5