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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89948"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:32:34.089Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:55:22.451Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89948"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89948.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89948"
title: "batman-adv: bla: fix freeing of claims on meshif deletion"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: bla: fix freeing of claims on meshif deletion\n\nWhen the mesh interface is getting deleted, then\nbatadv_bla_del_backbone_claims() (via batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw()) could\nmake sure that all claims gets removed. But this function is only executed\nwhen bat_priv-\u003ebla.claim_hash is not NULL. And since batadv_bla_free() is\nalways setting it to NULL before it is (indirectly) called, it was never\nactually executed.\n\nBut the batadv_bla_purge_claims() -\u003e batadv_handle_unclaim() is at the\nmoment too fragile because the BLA code is not handling the rehashing in\nbatadv_bla_update_orig_address(). The stored backbone address doesn't have\nto be the one actually used for the hash bucket selection during the\ninitial adding of the backbone. The batadv_handle_unclaim() can therefore\nfail to find the respective backbone for the unclaim and then stop the\ndeletion.\n\nBut the actual backbone_gw object is not needed for the unclaim because all\nrelevant information is always provided by the caller. And the check for\nthe existence of the backbone_gw doesn't provide any additional security\ncheck for the deletion of a claim."
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