CVE-2026-46212

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

batman-adv: bla: prevent use-after-free when deleting claims

When batadv_bla_del_backbone_claims() removes all claims for a backbone, it does this by dropping the link entry in the hash list. This list entry itself was one of the references which need to be dropped at the same time via batadv_claim_put().

But the batadv_claim_put() must not be done before the last access to the claim object in this function. Otherwise the claim might be freed already by the batadv_claim_release() function before the list entry was dropped.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux23721387c409087fd3b97e274f34d3ddc0970b74 < 1d4b241482d9025c537afb3c7c8419c72c0e0c82affected
LinuxLinux23721387c409087fd3b97e274f34d3ddc0970b74 < a1a99837bb6169cfb9187abaa2005e8f12079426affected
LinuxLinux23721387c409087fd3b97e274f34d3ddc0970b74 < b88c865dcf6e9f20bfe66a360d4b62941ef769b8affected
LinuxLinux23721387c409087fd3b97e274f34d3ddc0970b74 < 368449e467d5f1e2c2e987bf2bd57000ba75e10baffected
LinuxLinux23721387c409087fd3b97e274f34d3ddc0970b74 < 6c5dc6d68e6ba7f0224a757a39ed52fcdb54d472affected
LinuxLinux23721387c409087fd3b97e274f34d3ddc0970b74 < 00155f336a5e8b1006d2ca9ae7ad8fc4a44bb401affected
LinuxLinux23721387c409087fd3b97e274f34d3ddc0970b74 < 0cc9847c64cb6e61118bc78c9187c8209a7197faaffected
LinuxLinux23721387c409087fd3b97e274f34d3ddc0970b74 < 4ae1709a314060a196981b344610d023ea841e57affected
LinuxLinux3.5affected
LinuxLinux0 < 3.5unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.258 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.209 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.175 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.140 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.90 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.32 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.9 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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