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CVE-2026-80839 (GCVE-0-2026-80839)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-04 15:54 – Updated: 2026-09-04 15:54
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Title
batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets The network and transport header fields in struct sk_buff are 16-bit offsets from skb->head, and U16_MAX is reserved as the unset transport header value. batadv_tvlv_call_handler() sets both fields from a received multicast TVLV without checking whether the TVLV end is representable. If the end offset exceeds the field's range, skb_set_transport_header() truncates it so that the transport header precedes the network header. The negative difference is then returned by skb_network_header_len() as a large u32. batadv_mcast_forw_packet() consequently accepts an oversized multicast tracker and accesses memory beyond the skb data. Add skb_set_transport_header_careful(), an offset-aware counterpart to skb_reset_transport_header_careful(), which validates the final head-relative offset before assigning it. Use the new helper in batadv_tvlv_call_handler() and reject unrepresentable TVLVs before setting the network header.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 07afe1ba288c04280622fa002ed385f1ac0b6fe6 , < da1f5aa7ec93f2cc17f5cd30efc54f62af433cf2 (git)
Affected: 07afe1ba288c04280622fa002ed385f1ac0b6fe6 , < 916ec741e65af072b98e475feaad98c063da1b7c (git)
Affected: 07afe1ba288c04280622fa002ed385f1ac0b6fe6 , < 1b466746fe109127fd983100a228cdd1f1f6ece2 (git)
Affected: 07afe1ba288c04280622fa002ed385f1ac0b6fe6 , < 2b46baa591d0a7c16b62f150917187e70d053be6 (git)
Affected: 07afe1ba288c04280622fa002ed385f1ac0b6fe6 , < f12c2de4f542e3220e17e0606f492110064f04cb (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.108 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.49 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.13 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.3 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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