# 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-2026-72226"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:18.285Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:02.826Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72226"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72226.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72226"
title: "batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV OOB check overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV OOB check overflow\n\nA TT unicast TVLV contains the number of VLANs stored in it. This number is\nan u16 and gets multiplied by the size of the struct\nbatadv_tvlv_tt_vlan_data (8 bytes). The size can therefore overflow the u16\nused to store the tt_vlan_len. All additional safety checks to prevent\nout-of-bounds access of the TVLV buffer are invalid due to this overflow.\n\nUsing size_t prevents this overflow and ensures that the safety checks\ncompare against the actual buffer requirements."
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