CVE-2026-72232

batman-adv: ensure minimal ethernet header on TX

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 15, 2026 at 05:54 AM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 07:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: ensure minimal ethernet header on TX As documented in commit 8bd67ebb50c0 ("net: bridge: xmit: make sure we have at least eth header len bytes"), it is possible by for a local user with eBPF TC hook access to attach a tc filter which truncates the packet and redirects to an batadv interface. But the code assumes that at least ETH_HLEN bytes are available and thus might read outside of the available buffer. The batadv_interface_tx() must therefore always check itself if enough data is available for the ethernet header and don't rely on min_header_len.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.6.38c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3
Vendor states this is fixed in 38cd10b0aeec755d89f78722a2b83f4088ff0cb0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 49df66b7993c80b80c7eb9a84ba5b3410c8296a0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 58799078afebd5115e052bf69ad6697f9759dd6f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6b4f521e01257387906f8b969ad3450d8208d4e2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 811fea37620f2097955d95ce81cfdba03fd30f1b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9e16b6751a8206de0b865d99bb02771e6751d12d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in dbeb4145d9778f922f459935da9a027750765a69 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e6640923afee619d9fa82b07394dc9498e202304 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.38 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.261 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.212 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.178 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.97 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.145 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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