CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64218
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-24
- Last modified
- 2026-08-11
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: bla: fix report_work leak on backbone_gw purge
batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw() removes stale backbone gateway entries,
but fails to properly handle their associated report_work:
- If report_work is running, the purge must wait for it to finish before
freeing the backbone_gw, otherwise the worker may access freed memory
(e.g. bat_priv).
- If report_work is pending, the purge must cancel it and release the
reference held for that pending work item.
The previous implementation called hlist_for_each_entry_safe() inside a
spin_lock_bh() section, but cancel_work_sync() may sleep and therefore
cannot be called from within a spinlock-protected region.
Restructure the loop to handle one entry per spinlock critical section:
acquire the lock, find the next entry to purge, remove it from the hash
list, then release the lock before calling cancel_work_sync() and
dropping the hash_entry reference. Repeat until no more entries require
purging.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 5.10.258)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.209)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.175)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.92)
• 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/0459430add32ea41f3e2ef9351610e6d33627a6b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3423a45e5c3d3c5129f88143a9a969787d7d5a0a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48663158222b3b7f6ee6791a67d512ede7fc94bb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95a7034661274cf5985708bd2f6d86ee46f88fa9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6de1a5a9c406e30b91f1515a6ce05cc84023baa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce2c0ee4d76d5ee4b391fe0e31334361e25030ec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeddd7bab3d59c1e98642a204141f8c5d6194707 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1303adb1e59582f76c22798a2e2e150e054a9e7 Patch