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.
Affected products
linux: linux kernel
References8
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2997f4bd1f982e7013709946e00be89b507693fa Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a359bf5c61d52e7f09754108309d637532164a6 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/69d61639bc7e963c3b645e570279d731e7c89062 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e5d007e0df946bffb8542fb112e0044014a5897 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/95c71365a2222908441b54d6f2c315e0c79fcec3 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf2199171ef799ca7270019125f4a91bd20ad4d9 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/de6c1dc3c7d01a152607e6fcecee4d5288283f10 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f970646b9a39539d1bac86822ac78b5915455ea9 Patch
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.8
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 37 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-190
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