HIGHVulnerability

CVE-2026-64096

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: mcast: fix use-after-free in orig_node RCU release batadv_mcast_purge_orig() removes entries from RCU-protected hlists but does not wait for an RCU grace period before returning. Concurrent RCU readers may still accesses references to those entries at the point of removal. RCU-protected readers trying to operate on entries like orig->mcast_want_all_ipv6_node will then access already freed memory. Fix this by moving batadv_mcast_purge_orig() to batadv_orig_node_release(), just before the call_rcu() invocation. This ensures RCU readers that were active at purge time have drained before the orig_node memory is reclaimed.

Properties

severity
HIGH
score
8.8
cve_id
CVE-2026-64096
vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
published_at
2026-07-19T16:17:50.600
last_modified
2026-08-11T16:10:37.097

Related Entities (7)

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Use After Free

DESCRIBED_BY (1)

[Source]NVD

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