CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-31657

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2026-04-24 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2026-04-24
Last modified
2026-10-19
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-416, CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: hold claim backbone gateways by reference batadv_bla_add_claim() can replace claim->backbone_gw and drop the old gateway's last reference while readers still follow the pointer. The netlink claim dump path dereferences claim->backbone_gw->orig and takes claim->backbone_gw->crc_lock without pinning the underlying backbone gateway. batadv_bla_check_claim() still has the same naked pointer access pattern. Reuse batadv_bla_claim_get_backbone_gw() in both readers so they operate on a stable gateway reference until the read-side work is complete. This keeps the dump and claim-check paths aligned with the lifetime rules introduced for the other BLA claim readers.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.5.1 < 6.1.169) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.135) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.82) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.23) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.13) • linux linux kernel 3.5 • linux linux kernel 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References