# 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-2026-72229"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:20.512Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:10:45.285Z"
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-2026-72229"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72229.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72229"
title: "batman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure\n\nWhen an mesh interface is registered, it creates an untagged struct\nbatadv_meshif_vlan on top of it via the NETDEV_REGISTER notifier. But in\nthis process, another receiver of this notification can veto the\nregistration. The netdev registration will be aborted because of this veto.\n\nThe register_netdevice() call will try to clean up the net_device using\nunregister_netdevice_queue() - which only uses the .priv_destructor to\nfree private resources. In this situation, .dellink will not be called.\n\nThe cleanup of the untagged batadv_meshif_vlan must thefore be done in the\ndestructor to avoid a leak of this object."
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