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CVE-2026-72233 (GCVE-0-2026-72233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:41
VLAI
Title
batman-adv: bla: reacquire gw address after skb realloc
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: bla: reacquire gw address after skb realloc The pskb_may_pull() called by batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw() 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: 9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88 , < 41819c5467b6eb8ab4567f0ac98702ce9b6abbb1 (git)
Affected: 9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88 , < a9ab19fbca86b32e9a9ae9e1a63e70a7eab3400f (git)
Affected: 9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88 , < 4a6673c55752a7aa41e28f51660eb981504ca088 (git)
Affected: 9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88 , < ab2bac47a02637df1128a151e81d3ec14767f4bb (git)
Affected: 9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88 , < dc16bbf53cede1baf564bf0c8a861114b64e18b3 (git)
Affected: 9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88 , < e5e18886aadd3870e2d84e32a9678317fab1dd9e (git)
Affected: 9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88 , < f4fb97ecf677cd9c3aa4f3bfc6fbf5b0e4bdbbbf (git)
Affected: 9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88 , < cdf3b5af2bc4431e58629e8ad2086b1e9185c761 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (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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