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Critical 9.8Published Aug 28, 2026

CVE-2026-80600batman-adv: dat: acquire ARP hw source only after skb realloc

Updated under an hour ago ()

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: dat: acquire ARP hw source only after skb realloc The pskb_may_pull() called by batadv_get_vid() could reallocate the buffer behind the skb. Variables which were pointing to the old buffer need to be reassigned to avoid an use-after-free.

CVSS
9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Received
Record last updated
Aug 29, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from b61ec31c85756bbc898fb892555509afe709459a before a82fc217cb7a447313c76ebf9f09b100771b0ddf; from b61ec31c85756bbc898fb892555509afe709459a before 86aa79b43e5b561fd3648891165bd7313b541315; from b61ec31c85756bbc898fb892555509afe709459a before d755cd001fa2c248e186c1fc3df3d11d97dc843c; from b61ec31c85756bbc898fb892555509afe709459a before 3404be97b940a9b1ae1aea5fdbc6cdbbe9cd5146; from b61ec31c85756bbc898fb892555509afe709459a before 01678c53a7717a748aee388b6839e7b9761d641c; from b61ec31c85756bbc898fb892555509afe709459a before 3b4c70c40f2e135a50cd38fc61c7d23a296a9981; from b61ec31c85756bbc898fb892555509afe709459a before 059a70e1d12d6d99310e0599d37b0323557569a8; from b61ec31c85756bbc898fb892555509afe709459a before 48067b2ae4504500a7093d9e1e16b42e70330480
CNA record

References

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