Bug 2516493 (CVE-2026-72232) - CVE-2026-72232 kernel: batman-adv: ensure minimal ethernet header on TX
Summary: CVE-2026-72232 kernel: batman-adv: ensure minimal ethernet header on TX
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72232
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 16:51 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:15:25 UTC
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.


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