CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64092
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-08-11
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: tp_meter: fix tp_vars reference leak in receiver shutdown
The receiver shutdown timer handler, batadv_tp_receiver_shutdown(), is
responsible for releasing the tp_vars reference it holds. However, the
existing logic for coordinating this release with batadv_tp_stop_all() was
flawed.
timer_shutdown_sync() guarantees the timer will not fire again after it
returns, but it returns non-zero only when the timer was pending at the
time of the call. If the timer had already expired (and
batadv_tp_stop_all() would unsucessfully try to rearm itself),
batadv_tp_stop_all() skips its batadv_tp_vars_put(), and
batadv_tp_receiver_shutdown() fails to put its own reference as well.
Fix this by introducing a new atomic variable receiving that is set to 1
when the receiver is initialized and cleared atomically with atomic_xchg()
by whichever side claims it first. Only the side that observes the
transition from 1 to 0 is responsible for releasing the tp_vars timer
reference, eliminating the uncertainty.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.259 < 5.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.140 < 6.6.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.90 < 6.12.92)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.18.32 < 6.18.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 7.0.9 < 7.0.11)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b1bedf114ea93fef929b31f0d70a9eedcc601de Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/297e1bc4a915b7cd3e65a79ed906b23fb3d7aaae Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77098e4bea37af51d3962efa88a5af2ea5e1ac57 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7715c73f33260af724d734c41b794457e9be8dbc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f0bfd624ee8a286d6fd2bf0f796e730efb49b0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b285bc0a97f43823a4967fb6d286de4c7f53d541 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d078501dde9b57210f1808cdef4b59463d1f5fc8 Patch