# 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-2026-72233"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:23.663Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:03.576Z"
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-2026-72233"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72233.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72233"
title: "batman-adv: bla: reacquire gw address after skb realloc"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: bla: reacquire gw address after skb realloc\n\nThe pskb_may_pull() called by batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw() could reallocate\nthe buffer behind the skb. Variables which were pointing to the old buffer\nneed to be reassigned to avoid an use-after-free."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41819c5467b6eb8ab4567f0ac98702ce9b6abbb1"},{"version":"9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9ab19fbca86b32e9a9ae9e1a63e70a7eab3400f"},{"version":"9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a6673c55752a7aa41e28f51660eb981504ca088"},{"version":"9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab2bac47a02637df1128a151e81d3ec14767f4bb"},{"version":"9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc16bbf53cede1baf564bf0c8a861114b64e18b3"},{"version":"9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5e18886aadd3870e2d84e32a9678317fab1dd9e"},{"version":"9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4fb97ecf677cd9c3aa4f3bfc6fbf5b0e4bdbbbf"},{"version":"9e794b6bf4a2c65d698d7433ddfabc54a5d53a88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cdf3b5af2bc4431e58629e8ad2086b1e9185c761"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"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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