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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72233

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:21:50 AM

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

batman-adv: bla: reacquire gw address after skb realloc

The pskb_may_pull() called by batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw() could reallocate
the buffer behind the skb. Variables which were pointing to the old buffer
need to be reassigned to avoid an use-after-free.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41819c5467b6eb8ab4567f0ac98702ce9b6abbb1
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a6673c55752a7aa41e28f51660eb981504ca088
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9ab19fbca86b32e9a9ae9e1a63e70a7eab3400f
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab2bac47a02637df1128a151e81d3ec14767f4bb
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdf3b5af2bc4431e58629e8ad2086b1e9185c761
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc16bbf53cede1baf564bf0c8a861114b64e18b3
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5e18886aadd3870e2d84e32a9678317fab1dd9e
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4fb97ecf677cd9c3aa4f3bfc6fbf5b0e4bdbbbf
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