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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80839"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:54:49.378Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:44:32.478Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80839"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80839.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80839"
title: "batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets\n\nThe network and transport header fields in struct sk_buff are 16-bit\noffsets from skb-\u003ehead, and U16_MAX is reserved as the unset transport\nheader value. batadv_tvlv_call_handler() sets both fields from a received\nmulticast TVLV without checking whether the TVLV end is representable.\n\nIf the end offset exceeds the field's range, skb_set_transport_header()\ntruncates it so that the transport header precedes the network header.\nThe negative difference is then returned by skb_network_header_len() as\na large u32. batadv_mcast_forw_packet() consequently accepts an oversized\nmulticast tracker and accesses memory beyond the skb data.\n\nAdd skb_set_transport_header_careful(), an offset-aware counterpart to\nskb_reset_transport_header_careful(), which validates the final\nhead-relative offset before assigning it. Use the new helper in\nbatadv_tvlv_call_handler() and reject unrepresentable TVLVs before\nsetting the network header."
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