CVE-2026-72229 (GCVE-0-2026-72229)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:10
VLAI
Title
batman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure When an mesh interface is registered, it creates an untagged struct batadv_meshif_vlan on top of it via the NETDEV_REGISTER notifier. But in this process, another receiver of this notification can veto the registration. The netdev registration will be aborted because of this veto. The register_netdevice() call will try to clean up the net_device using unregister_netdevice_queue() - which only uses the .priv_destructor to free private resources. In this situation, .dellink will not be called. The cleanup of the untagged batadv_meshif_vlan must thefore be done in the destructor to avoid a leak of this object.
Severity
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5d2c05b213377694a2aa8ce1ed9b23f7c39b0569 , < 86e32dfb6a6fe29898f4a562b7b6e38e480bba4d (git)
Affected: 5d2c05b213377694a2aa8ce1ed9b23f7c39b0569 , < 06ae245168268b705a204f93c318b30107d10e92 (git)
Affected: 5d2c05b213377694a2aa8ce1ed9b23f7c39b0569 , < dbca15fcbeed5276af440a53aed3901590fa7fc9 (git)
Affected: 5d2c05b213377694a2aa8ce1ed9b23f7c39b0569 , < f2423da55976ea249f73029e468aefda4b94acba (git)
Affected: 5d2c05b213377694a2aa8ce1ed9b23f7c39b0569 , < f15ca6250591cfe78408114a54eaa8d58da51bfa (git)
Affected: 5d2c05b213377694a2aa8ce1ed9b23f7c39b0569 , < c945f6007e7851e74706c72f98763023699bcd97 (git)
Affected: 5d2c05b213377694a2aa8ce1ed9b23f7c39b0569 , < 5a82c558098889cc8bfff85cc62f563833205d91 (git)
Affected: 5d2c05b213377694a2aa8ce1ed9b23f7c39b0569 , < 8669a550c752d86baebc5fdc83b8ff35c4372c0e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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