PT-2026-61152 · Linux · Linux
CVE-2026-63836
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Published
2026-07-19
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Updated
2026-07-19
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: tp meter: avoid divide-by-zero for dec cwnd
The cwnd is always MSS <= cwnd <= 0x20000000. But the calculation in
batadv tp update cwnd() assumes unsigned 32 bit arithmetics.
((mss * 8) ** 2) / (cwnd * 8)
In case cwnd is actually 0x20000000, it will be shifted by 3 bit to the
left end up at 0x100000000 or U32 MAX + 1. It will therefore wrap around
and be 0 - resulting in:
((mss * 8) ** 2) / 0
This is of course invalid and cannot be calculated. The calculation should
must be simplified to avoid this overflow:
(mss ** 2) * 8 / cwnd
It will keep the precision enhancement from the scaling (by 8) but avoid
the overflow in the divisor.
In theory, there could still be an overflow in the dividend. It is at the
moment fixed to BATADV TP PLEN in batadv tp recv ack() - so it is not an
imminent problem. But allowing it to use the whole u32 bit range, would
mean that it can still use up to 67 bits. To keep this calculation safe for
32 bit arithmetic, mss must never use more than floor((32 - 3) / 2) bits -
or in other words: must never be larger than 16383.
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