CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64093
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-08-11
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: tp_meter: directly shut down timer on cleanup
batadv_tp_sender_cleanup() was calling timer_delete_sync() followed by
timer_delete() to guard against the timer handler re-arming itself between
the two calls. This double-deletion hack relied on the sending status being
set to 0 to suppress re-arming.
Replace both calls with a single timer_shutdown_sync(). This function both
waits for any running timer callback to complete (like timer_delete_sync())
and permanently disarms the timer so it cannot be re-armed afterwards,
making re-arming prevention unconditional and self-documenting.
The re-arming property is also required because otherwise:
1. context 0 (batadv_tp_recv_ack()) checks in
batadv_tp_reset_sender_timer() if sending is still 1 -> it is
2. context 1 changes in batadv_tp_sender_shutdown() sending to 0 and in
this process forces the kthread to stop timer in
batadv_tp_sender_cleanup()
3. context 0 continues in batadv_tp_reset_sender_timer() and rearms the
timer -> but the reference for it is already gone
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.8 < 5.15.210)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.143)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.11)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00bf4bb9947b1190a8be8d9b6a1bcbfa3707785c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bc2d50fb66b46f86543d5153a188eb1486d0b6e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74a76634055462833446684fd526d73c290ea43a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/770bf0a35f0620b526fd4193889d1e77084e4c43 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/933880a8bc9b4042223a79255c0b1021cdc36991 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5487249a81ea658717614009c8f46acc5b7101a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f86b20ec8d17d77bddc02c5c86cfa2389d84ecff Patch