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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2026-64096

batman-adv: mcast: fix use-after-free in orig_node RCU release

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: mcast: fix use-after-free in orig_node RCU release batadv_mcast_purge_orig() removes entries from RCU-protected hlists but does not wait for an RCU grace period before returning. Concurrent RCU readers may still accesses references to those entries at the point of removal. RCU-protected readers trying to operate on entries like orig->mcast_want_all_ipv6_node will then access already freed memory. Fix this by moving batadv_mcast_purge_orig() to batadv_orig_node_release(), just before the call_rcu() invocation. This ensures RCU readers that were active at purge time have drained before the orig_node memory is reclaimed.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • ab49886e3da73b6b35ece21006e191910427bb30 to < ff3a4487ead475e27b43280b8ee3d8464fe280e1affected
  • ab49886e3da73b6b35ece21006e191910427bb30 to < 78a63fb2f7d5630d1c1f2859a20d4e4226863b41affected
  • ab49886e3da73b6b35ece21006e191910427bb30 to < ced48f55bac73f0822eae90509e51b42b4f646c8affected
  • ab49886e3da73b6b35ece21006e191910427bb30 to < 70bcb678561f0fb58f33270fc73f12f3be72b878affected
  • ab49886e3da73b6b35ece21006e191910427bb30 to < aef897c9d2dd0d9339167fb82b62beff68d076cbaffected
  • ab49886e3da73b6b35ece21006e191910427bb30 to < 8a3707653ab658e082ccd992e92594e01b09a3fcaffected
  • ab49886e3da73b6b35ece21006e191910427bb30 to < edfb1e094104a50f931553dc82ac59246569fd32affected
  • ab49886e3da73b6b35ece21006e191910427bb30 to < 20c2d6a20ca936f5aaa6dd40f73f262ac45c87ccaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 3.15affected
  • 0 to < 3.15unaffected
  • 5.10.258 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.209 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.175 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.142 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.92 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.34 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.0.11 to ≤ 7.0.*unaffected
  • 7.1 to ≤ *unaffected

References