{"id":82246,"date":"2026-07-19T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-63834-batman-adv-tp_meter-restrict-number-of-unacked-list-entries\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:16:56","slug":"cve-2026-63834-batman-adv-tp_meter-restrict-number-of-unacked-list-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-63834-batman-adv-tp_meter-restrict-number-of-unacked-list-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-63834 &#8211; batman-adv: tp_meter: restrict number of unacked list entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-63834<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 19, 2026, 12:16 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 23\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>batman-adv: tp_meter: restrict number of unacked list entries<\/p>\n<p>When the unacked_list is unbound, an attacker could send messages with<br \/>\nsmall lengths and appropriated seqno + gaps to force the receiver to<br \/>\nallocate more and more unacked_list entries. And the end either causing an<br \/>\nout-of-memory situation or increase the management overhead for the (large)<br \/>\nlist that significant portions of CPU cycles are wasted in searching<br \/>\nthrough the list.<\/p>\n<p>When limiting the list to a specific number, it is important to still<br \/>\ncorrectly add a new entry to the list. But if the list became larger than<br \/>\nthe limit, the last entry of the list (with the highest seqno) must be<br \/>\ndropped to still allow the earlier seqnos to finish and therefore to<br \/>\ncontinue the process. Otherwise, the process might get stuck with too high<br \/>\nseqnos which are not handled by batadv_tp_ack_unordered().<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-63834 Published : July 19, 2026, 12:16 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 23\u00a0minutes ago Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: tp_meter: restrict number of unacked list entries When the unacked_list is unbound, an attacker could send messages with small lengths and appropriated seqno + gaps to force the receiver &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}