CVE-2026-52931 PUBLISHED

batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 24.06.2026 Updated: 24.06.2026

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

batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars

batadv_tp_recv_ack() and batadv_tp_stop() are only valid for tp_vars in the BATADV_TP_SENDER role. When called with a BATADV_TP_RECEIVER role, it proceeds to read sender-only members that were never initialized, leading to undefined behavior.

This can be triggered when a node that is currently acting as a receiver in an ongoing tp_meter session receives a malicious ACK packet.

Guard against this by checking tp_vars->role immediately after the lookup and bailing out if it is not BATADV_TP_SENDER, before any of those members are accessed.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 33a3bb4a3345bb511f9c69c913da95d4693e2a4e to 0e388af04b3958b178a1b979527f93eb46ea1fee (excl.)
  • affected from 33a3bb4a3345bb511f9c69c913da95d4693e2a4e to 1a21c055f66e78973712a4a1be2a554f1ee2e4f4 (excl.)
  • affected from 33a3bb4a3345bb511f9c69c913da95d4693e2a4e to 9884c9c02d3c90e9215db3c5128f59045d20ae91 (excl.)
  • affected from 33a3bb4a3345bb511f9c69c913da95d4693e2a4e to 53f931e0146ae5bdab4cba302646827d06b3794b (excl.)
  • affected from 33a3bb4a3345bb511f9c69c913da95d4693e2a4e to ecdaa3e4d91040206afe21bc8a0d1198a0971ff3 (excl.)
  • affected from 33a3bb4a3345bb511f9c69c913da95d4693e2a4e to dc2ae5fbd2dadc26735092f140b246841d969a11 (excl.)
  • affected from 33a3bb4a3345bb511f9c69c913da95d4693e2a4e to 85397e48afe6be83ffca5ad3f4792296bfc81d3d (excl.)
  • affected from 33a3bb4a3345bb511f9c69c913da95d4693e2a4e to 6c65cf23d4c6170fcf5714c32aa64689718cb142 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.258 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.209 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.175 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.142 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.92 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.34 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.11 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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