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CVE-2026-31659

batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers

CVSS 9.8 CRITICALEPSS 0.4%
Vexday Risk Score
28Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 9.8EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
24 Apr 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux

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