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CVE-2026-80601 (GCVE-0-2026-80601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 06:48 – Updated: 2026-08-29 06:21
VLAI
Title
batman-adv: gw: acquire ethernet header only after skb realloc
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: gw: acquire ethernet header only after skb realloc The pskb_may_pull() called by batadv_get_vid() could reallocate the buffer behind the skb. Variables which were pointing to the old buffer need to be reassigned to avoid an use-after-free.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9 , < 2760b38222c8828b075802342fe3b91eb823d542 (git)
Affected: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9 , < 6c37f1166549c999ccd164b0cb6462d1ae68f8f6 (git)
Affected: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9 , < b79884a5567bf788fb76c30832467cf6a56f3c0d (git)
Affected: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9 , < afac8096bde4948e3caa7e4dd733867cfbd3018e (git)
Affected: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9 , < e3f4325e35dd6e76b80665f3510738ce34819753 (git)
Affected: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9 , < e6b43acd34b219b807e65096ce207b087942779d (git)
Affected: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9 , < 916dac5f2944f63f07f7b501acbea6737dbbed0e (git)
Affected: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9 , < 77880a3be88d378d60cc1e8f8ec70430e2ed0518 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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