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CVE-2026-46238

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: stop caching unowned originator pointers in BAT IV BAT IV keeps the last-hop neighbor address in each neigh_node, but some paths also cache an originator pointer derived from a temporary lookup. That pointer is not owned by the neigh_node and may no longer refer to a live originator entry after purge handling runs. Stop storing the auxiliary originator pointer in the BAT IV neighbor state. When BAT IV needs the ne
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:7c77af91e98fd7c2e43326c7d0ee46d75fdc8f673f8d2bbacbb4fb0afd49f003
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/affected/0
{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"2.6.38"},{"lessThan":"2.6.38","status":"unaffected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","status":"unaffected","version":"5.10.258","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","status":"unaffected","version":"5.15.209","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","status":"unaffected","version":"6.1.175","versionType":"semver"}…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/affected/1

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

Source references

8 source assertions
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09dc0d1a12222ffca6481916eab3cfea477b9620"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/384e3050a42be9085d50507b4d5f8266a588d742"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67bceeb22207f1f5a402973a3a0809e5f2698f38"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e20700f8c524ac379ba8274ff5d453023b7c006"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86b2b58d7c228d850c8c78e4144e6123e8ed2718"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c16c68fdbb69778f8d04f650340c3f4d1518f8e"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aafcbaf1159ea224528ca4075d0ba8c10ef374af"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f03e8583532941b07761c5429de7d50766fa3110"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c5d88f5f5f17cd214be203945df5d7bc1067064da790902ee46bae884727f149 · sha256:743155811000b3fe… · /containers/cna/references/7

Attribution and limitations

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