CVE-2026-72232

CVE-2026-72232

High · published August 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

batman-adv: ensure minimal ethernet header on TX

As documented in commit 8bd67ebb50c0 ("net: bridge: xmit: make sure we have

at least eth header len bytes"), it is possible by for a local user with

eBPF TC hook access to attach a tc filter which truncates the packet and

redirects to an batadv interface. But the code assumes that at least

ETH_HLEN bytes are available and thus might read outside of the available

buffer.

The batadv_interface_tx() must therefore always check itself if enough data

is available for the ethernet header and don't rely on min_header_len.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00156 · 4.4th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:21Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:54Z
    batman-adv: ensure minimal ethernet header on TX
    cvelistv5