Bug 2516494 (CVE-2026-72226) - CVE-2026-72226 kernel: batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV OOB check overflow
Summary: CVE-2026-72226 kernel: batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV OOB check overflow
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72226
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:15 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-18 16:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:15:28 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV OOB check overflow

A TT unicast TVLV contains the number of VLANs stored in it. This number is
an u16 and gets multiplied by the size of the struct
batadv_tvlv_tt_vlan_data (8 bytes). The size can therefore overflow the u16
used to store the tt_vlan_len. All additional safety checks to prevent
out-of-bounds access of the TVLV buffer are invalid due to this overflow.

Using size_t prevents this overflow and ensures that the safety checks
compare against the actual buffer requirements.


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