{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72229 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72229 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72229 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72229 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72229 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72229/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72229/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72229","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72229/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72229","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-72229","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72229","GHSA-7p74-4rvh-gr76","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72229"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel batman-adv module can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when netdev registration fails.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure\n\nWhen an mesh interface is registered, it creates an untagged struct\nbatadv_meshif_vlan on top of it via the NETDEV_REGISTER notifier. But in\nthis process, another receiver of this notification can veto the\nregistration. The netdev registration will be aborted because of this veto.\n\nThe register_netdevice() call will try to clean up the net_device using\nunregister_netdevice_queue() - which only uses the .priv_destructor to\nfree private resources. In this situation, .dellink will not be called.\n\nThe cleanup of the untagged batadv_meshif_vlan must thefore be done in the\ndestructor to avoid a leak of this object.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"batman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure","id":"CVE-2026-72229","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"batman-adv: frag: free unfragmentable packet","id":"CVE-2026-72230"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"batman-adv: frag: fix primary_if leak on failed linearization","id":"CVE-2026-72228"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel batman-adv module can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when netdev registration fails.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72229/"}