CVE-2026-64096

HIGH
8.8CVSS v3
CVSS v2
0.26% EPSS (exploit probability)
CWE

Description

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.

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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