CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-72229

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 15, 2026Sources checked Oct 8, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-72229. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-72229?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

batman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure

When an mesh interface is registered, it creates an untagged struct batadv_meshif_vlan on top of it via the NETDEV_REGISTER notifier. But in this process, another receiver of this notification can veto the registration.

The netdev registration will be aborted because of this veto.

The register_netdevice() call will try to clean up the net_device using unregister_netdevice_queue() - which only uses the .priv_destructor to free private resources. In this situation, .dellink will not be called.

The cleanup of the untagged batadv_meshif_vlan must thefore be done in the destructor to avoid a leak of this object.

Source: NVD