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CVE-2026-31659

critical

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_global_dat…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_global_data() builds the allocation length for a global TT response in 16-bit temporaries. When a remote originator advertises a large enough global TT, the TT payload length plus the VLAN header offset can exceed 65535 and wrap before kmalloc(). The full-table response path still uses the original TT payload length when it fills tt_change, so the wrapped allocation is too small and batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_global_data() writes past the end of the heap object before the later packet-size check runs. Fix this by rejecting TT responses whose TVLV value length cannot fit in the 16-bit TVLV payload length field.

CVSS
9.8
9.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-04-24 15:16
Modified: 2026-11-11 23:10
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 3 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-11 23:13 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥3.13.1 <5.10.253, ≥5.11 <5.15.203, ≥5.16 <6.1.169, ≥6.2 <6.6.135, ≥6.7 <6.12.82, ≥6.13 <6.18.23

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo CWE-190

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2997f4bd1f982e7013709946e00be89b507693fa
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a359bf5c61d52e7f09754108309d637532164a6
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69d61639bc7e963c3b645e570279d731e7c89062
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e5d007e0df946bffb8542fb112e0044014a5897
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95c71365a2222908441b54d6f2c315e0c79fcec3
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf2199171ef799ca7270019125f4a91bd20ad4d9
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de6c1dc3c7d01a152607e6fcecee4d5288283f10
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f970646b9a39539d1bac86822ac78b5915455ea9

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-11 23:13 UTC · record ↗

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