# 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-2026-72231"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:22.076Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:03.082Z"
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-2026-72231"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72231.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72231"
title: "batman-adv: tt: avoid request storms during pending request"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: tt: avoid request storms during pending request\n\nbatadv_send_tt_request() allocates a tt_req_node when none exists for the\ndestination originator node. This should prevent that a multiple TT\nrequests are send at the same time to an originator.\n\nBut if allocation of the send buffer failed, this request must be cleaned\nup again. But indicator for such a failure is \"ret == false\". But the\nactual implementation is checking for \"ret == true\".\n\nThe check must be inverted to not loose the information about the TT\nrequest directly after it was attempted to be sent out. This should avoid\npotential request storms."
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