# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46231"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:40:53.471Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T18:04:27.129Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46231"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46231.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46231"
title: "batman-adv: bla: put backbone reference on failed claim hash insert"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: bla: put backbone reference on failed claim hash insert\n\nWhen batadv_bla_add_claim() fails to insert a new claim into the hash, it\nleaked a reference to the backbone_gw for which the claim was intended.\nCall batadv_backbone_gw_put() on the error path to release the reference\nand avoid leaking the backbone_gw object."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3db0decf1185357d6ab2256d0dede1ca9efda03d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c8b68a7ed667a63aa603ba4d3a7088be143007e"},{"version":"3db0decf1185357d6ab2256d0dede1ca9efda03d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"769f413d374ff2b6ff6d8d8c37b4c1178e6cdf14"},{"version":"3db0decf1185357d6ab2256d0dede1ca9efda03d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2888c9a154123db0254ae4fb9bea570c7e1f2e06"},{"version":"3db0decf1185357d6ab2256d0dede1ca9efda03d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65419eb4259a26a3cd3f56fa0e3b3c113bf8c256"},{"version":"3db0decf1185357d6ab2256d0dede1ca9efda03d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd0ca034c1e71ca7613cde9dd892836b2c2831bd"},{"version":"3db0decf1185357d6ab2256d0dede1ca9efda03d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0baf4b659cdc7305cf685b5a5d60f9e3816ab5d0"},{"version":"3db0decf1185357d6ab2256d0dede1ca9efda03d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7cccf4eb4f96d3c3af91a00b7a9caa652439542e"},{"version":"3db0decf1185357d6ab2256d0dede1ca9efda03d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba9d20ee9076dac32c371116bacbe72480eb356c"},{"version":"3fdd337ac0b277a1f40aa73b35283520f426e517","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"485eedfabc2aefac8f09f98a82ba1c1e3e202a6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.16.39","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.4.217","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.90","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.32","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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