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GHSA-5R79-5R2G-4HHM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-17 06:33

Details

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

batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV OOB check overflow

A TT unicast TVLV contains the number of VLANs stored in it. This number is an u16 and gets multiplied by the size of the struct batadv_tvlv_tt_vlan_data (8 bytes). The size can therefore overflow the u16 used to store the tt_vlan_len. All additional safety checks to prevent out-of-bounds access of the TVLV buffer are invalid due to this overflow.

Using size_t prevents this overflow and ensures that the safety checks compare against the actual buffer requirements.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-72226 (GCVE-0-2026-72226)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:41

Title

batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV OOB check overflow

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV OOB check overflow A TT unicast TVLV contains the number of VLANs stored in it. This number is an u16 and gets multiplied by the size of the struct batadv_tvlv_tt_vlan_data (8 bytes). The size can therefore overflow the u16 used to store the tt_vlan_len. All additional safety checks to prevent out-of-bounds access of the TVLV buffer are invalid due to this overflow. Using size_t prevents this overflow and ensures that the safety checks compare against the actual buffer requirements.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de12a4c4847f571d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6ff4764ff784ede2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1898273c5dc814826…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/604bd5042fbcd1ab9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7319c0794f91be273…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3256c05d5a9db3434…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6222b443686525cb5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a581d9aaba8c82bd…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7ea7b4a142758deaf46c1af0ca9ceca6dd55138b , < 0de12a4c4847f571d82a9cd96bc633eded41d7c6 (git) Affected: 7ea7b4a142758deaf46c1af0ca9ceca6dd55138b , < d6ff4764ff784ede25f5c83a6f5883a74c93a5ea (git) Affected: 7ea7b4a142758deaf46c1af0ca9ceca6dd55138b , < 1898273c5dc8148267ef9f97cd2517a2822350e7 (git) Affected: 7ea7b4a142758deaf46c1af0ca9ceca6dd55138b , < 604bd5042fbcd1ab9f7cd98fd847ec017aeede8a (git) Affected: 7ea7b4a142758deaf46c1af0ca9ceca6dd55138b , < 7319c0794f91be2734aac695794e7203606b49f8 (git) Affected: 7ea7b4a142758deaf46c1af0ca9ceca6dd55138b , < 3256c05d5a9db34346eaf20f52dddde984852d77 (git) Affected: 7ea7b4a142758deaf46c1af0ca9ceca6dd55138b , < 6222b443686525cb5a9b6a9cecf23b2e2ab23e2a (git) Affected: 7ea7b4a142758deaf46c1af0ca9ceca6dd55138b , < 7a581d9aaba8c82bd6177fa36b2588eea77f6e2b (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.13 (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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