# 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-2026-72235"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:25.136Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:04.206Z"
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-2026-72235"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72235.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72235"
title: "batman-adv: retrieve ethhdr after potential skb realloc on RX"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: retrieve ethhdr after potential skb realloc on RX\n\npskb_may_pull() in batadv_interface_rx() could reallocate the buffer behind\nthe skb. Variables which were pointing to the old buffer need to be\nreassigned to avoid an use-after-free.\n\nThis was done correctly for the VLAN header but missed for the ethernet\nheader which is later used for the TT and AP isolation handling."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e189f14d1ea28db212b9d70a02131a7ce518012"},{"version":"c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a1820344b180cb55af748f102bc536b5c93164db"},{"version":"c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6abf73589bed3f27ee240c08108feb72bed0b9c6"},{"version":"c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f19259395b44af67f3c274e34237c295b526b859"},{"version":"c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2cefa5141cab8ec1e4b24cf585958b13f2e3049d"},{"version":"c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"85a71a81854e0e191ad0e533eabb4eff54866feb"},{"version":"c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b031fc97e1993d29d6c3a0e86a99140528cf31e8"},{"version":"c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"035e1fed892d3d06002a73ff73668f618a514644"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.38","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.38"},{"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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