CVE-2026-80601 (GCVE-0-2026-80601)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-28 06:48
Modified
2026-10-16 19:26
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: gw: acquire ethernet header only after skb realloc The pskb_may_pull() called by batadv_get_vid() 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.
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Linux Linux Version: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9
Version: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9
Version: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9
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Version: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9
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Version: 6c413b1c22a2c4ef324f1c6f2c282f1ca10a93b9
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