# 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-2026-72230"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:21.256Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:10:46.396Z"
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-2026-72230"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72230.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72230"
title: "batman-adv: frag: free unfragmentable packet"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: frag: free unfragmentable packet\n\nThe caller of batadv_frag_send_packet() assume that the skb provided to the\nfunction are always consumed. But the pre-check for an empty payload or the\nzero fragment size returned an error without any further actions.\n\nA failed pre-check must use the same error handling code as the rest of the\nfunction."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5155aeeae8ead3c6081f7f197608033e4dcfe75"},{"version":"ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"04ccbed8179e7d4d0906d00939300ddc5b48ce7e"},{"version":"ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"601dff01a03ecced59938cdd69eeb2c66e4158f2"},{"version":"ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"740542f11bf8c86411c429fbd7f84fc6bee80e76"},{"version":"ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59e1da1ab354d1f2b7bab8d44f846262f990ad9d"},{"version":"ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f54162e07d3eea1e4ff21464cf2a815d79b6510"},{"version":"ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08047838817561cef33ada9774a2a4663d499ecb"},{"version":"ee75ed88879af88558818a5c6609d85f60ff0df4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b628425aed49a1c7a4ffc997583840fc582d32b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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