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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-72231

batman-adv: tt: avoid request storms during pending request

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: tt: avoid request storms during pending request batadv_send_tt_request() allocates a tt_req_node when none exists for the destination originator node. This should prevent that a multiple TT requests are send at the same time to an originator. But if allocation of the send buffer failed, this request must be cleaned up again. But indicator for such a failure is "ret == false". But the actual implementation is checking for "ret == true". The check must be inverted to not loose the information about the TT request directly after it was attempted to be sent out. This should avoid potential request storms.

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

  • 335fbe0f5d2501b7dd815806aef6fd9bad784eb1 to < 6055695ea40c64a47e00742c12c99b1a33b4daedaffected
  • 335fbe0f5d2501b7dd815806aef6fd9bad784eb1 to < 21c44a6895f41df811d1c91d10eea194dda2b345affected
  • 335fbe0f5d2501b7dd815806aef6fd9bad784eb1 to < 5e46c76d9a5062212c4c5f642a5549fd9c057f8aaffected
  • 335fbe0f5d2501b7dd815806aef6fd9bad784eb1 to < 067e413eec2e63c2996909ef55214b3a0eda0be7affected
  • 335fbe0f5d2501b7dd815806aef6fd9bad784eb1 to < 716f434eb35869e130424331584a91fbb729b9bdaffected
  • 335fbe0f5d2501b7dd815806aef6fd9bad784eb1 to < 6a65ac8a81e903bb4b555c1d13532f5cb0167a4aaffected
  • 335fbe0f5d2501b7dd815806aef6fd9bad784eb1 to < aba1cf21954e64c36afb966b754adad2b0b8aa48affected
  • 335fbe0f5d2501b7dd815806aef6fd9bad784eb1 to < 27c7d40008231ae4140d35501b60087a9de2d2c3affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 3.13affected
  • 0 to < 3.13unaffected
  • 5.10.261 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.212 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.178 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.145 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.97 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.40 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.5 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

References