# 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-2026-52931"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T07:14:23.349Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:47:08.135Z"
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-2026-52931"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52931.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52931"
title: "batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars\n\nbatadv_tp_recv_ack() and batadv_tp_stop() are only valid for tp_vars in the\nBATADV_TP_SENDER role. When called with a BATADV_TP_RECEIVER role, it\nproceeds to read sender-only members that were never initialized, leading\nto undefined behavior.\n\nThis can be triggered when a node that is currently acting as a receiver in\nan ongoing tp_meter session receives a malicious ACK packet.\n\nGuard against this by checking tp_vars-\u003erole immediately after the\nlookup and bailing out if it is not BATADV_TP_SENDER, before any of\nthose members are accessed."
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