# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31659"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:45:10.254Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:56:02.093Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31659"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31659.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31659"
title: "batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers\n\nbatadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_global_data() builds the allocation length for a\nglobal TT response in 16-bit temporaries. When a remote originator\nadvertises a large enough global TT, the TT payload length plus the VLAN\nheader offset can exceed 65535 and wrap before kmalloc().\n\nThe full-table response path still uses the original TT payload length when\nit fills tt_change, so the wrapped allocation is too small and\nbatadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_global_data() writes past the end of the heap object\nbefore the later packet-size check runs.\n\nFix this by rejecting TT responses whose TVLV value length cannot fit in\nthe 16-bit TVLV payload length field."
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