CVE-2026-72019

CVE CVE-2026-72019EUVD EUVD-2026-58977Published 2026-08-15T05:51:46.000ZLast changed 2026-08-19T16:35:53.000ZCVSS 7.3

What the advisory describes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macsec: don't read an unset MAC header in macsec_encrypt() macsec_encrypt() reads the Ethernet header via eth_hdr(skb) (skb->head + skb->mac_header) to memmove() the 12 source/destination MAC bytes forward and make room for the SecTAG. On the AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW + PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS transmit path the skb reaches the macsec ndo_start_xmit() with the MAC header unset, so eth_hdr(skb) resolves to skb->head + (u16)~0 and the read is out of bounds: a 12-byte heap over-read that is also emitted on the wire as the frame's outer source/destination MAC. KASAN reports a slab-out-of-bounds read in macsec_start_xmit() on 6.0; on current mainline a CONFIG_DEBUG_NET build flags it as an unset mac header in skb_mac_header(). On the TX path the L2 header is at skb->data, so use skb_eth_hdr(), added by commit 96cc4b69581d ("macvlan: do not assume mac_header is set in macvlan_broadcast()") for exactly this purpose.

Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.

Products the advisory names

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Linux — Linux patch: 6.1.178; patch: 0; patch: 5.10.265; c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 <dc9ffa1905e72f026d080880a2e4cfc42aa91000; c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 <2cf10d042562283ff4ae97c02d0993d4f1b5ea29; patch: 5.15.216; patch: 6.12.97; patch: 6.6.145; patch: 6.18.40; c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 <c39087ad0b97fc11a3b058dfc8db9fd370762cb9; patch: 7.2; c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 <e17a42199824973cd8212e95b21ffadf4114a21b; c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 <b6cec6187b8632423cd99a94fd5e5ba165fa2a33; c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 <3adea1b1c04b57e08a5c12a1f42483760581ce61; c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 <f21fa533a3ed15ada74106aac4b9ddd078fc6b7a; patch: 7.1.5; 4.6; c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 <f5089008f90c0a7c5520dff3934e0af00adf322d

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