CVE-2026-72019

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

macsec: dont 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 frames 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.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cf10d042562283ff4ae97c02d0993d4f1b5ea29
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c39087ad0b97fc11a3b058dfc8db9fd370762cb9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc9ffa1905e72f026d080880a2e4cfc42aa91000
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e17a42199824973cd8212e95b21ffadf4114a21b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f21fa533a3ed15ada74106aac4b9ddd078fc6b7a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5089008f90c0a7c5520dff3934e0af00adf322d