CVE-2026-72232 (GCVE-0-2026-72232)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:54
Modified
2026-08-17 05:41
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3 Version: c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3 Version: c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3 Version: c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3 Version: c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3 Version: c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3 Version: c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3 Version: c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3 |
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