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CVE-2026-72230 (GCVE-0-2026-72230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:10
VLAI
Title
batman-adv: frag: free unfragmentable packet
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: frag: free unfragmentable packet The caller of batadv_frag_send_packet() assume that the skb provided to the function are always consumed. But the pre-check for an empty payload or the zero fragment size returned an error without any further actions. A failed pre-check must use the same error handling code as the rest of the function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4 , < a5155aeeae8ead3c6081f7f197608033e4dcfe75 (git)
Affected: ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4 , < 04ccbed8179e7d4d0906d00939300ddc5b48ce7e (git)
Affected: ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4 , < 601dff01a03ecced59938cdd69eeb2c66e4158f2 (git)
Affected: ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4 , < 740542f11bf8c86411c429fbd7f84fc6bee80e76 (git)
Affected: ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4 , < 59e1da1ab354d1f2b7bab8d44f846262f990ad9d (git)
Affected: ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4 , < 8f54162e07d3eea1e4ff21464cf2a815d79b6510 (git)
Affected: ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4 , < 08047838817561cef33ada9774a2a4663d499ecb (git)
Affected: ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4 , < 6b628425aed49a1c7a4ffc997583840fc582d32b (git)
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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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