CVE-2026-31659

CRITICAL

batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_global_data() builds the allocation length for a global TT response in 16-bit temporaries. When a remote originator advertises a large enough global TT, the TT payload length plus the VLAN header offset can exceed 65535 and wrap before kmalloc(). The full-table response path still uses the original TT payload length when it fills tt_change, so the wrapped allocation is too small and batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_global_data() writes past the end of the heap object before the later packet-size check runs. Fix this by rejecting TT responses whose TVLV value length cannot fit in the 16-bit TVLV payload length field.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 32.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (28)
linux/Kernel 3.13.0 - 5.10.253linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.203linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.169linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.23linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.13linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.135linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.82linux
Linux/Linux < 3.13
Linux/Linux 3.13
Linux/Linux 5.10.253 - 5.10.*
... and 18 more
Published Apr 24, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 24, 2026