CVE-2026-72230

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

Overview

About vulnerability

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

batman-adv: frag: free unfragmentable packet

The caller of batadv_frag_send_packet() assume that the skb provided to the function are always consumed. But the pre-check for an empty payload or the zero fragment size returned an error without any further actions.

A failed pre-check must use the same error handling code as the rest of the function.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 5.4.0 (+4 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 Planned