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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2026· Updated Apr 27, 2026

CVE-2026-31659

CVE-2026-31659

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.

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  • Linux/Kernel9 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 8 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=3.13.1,<5.10.253
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.13:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

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