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

batman-adv: Avoid infinite loop trying to resize local TT

If the MTU of one of an attached interface becomes too small to transmit
the local translation table then it must be resized to fit inside all
fragments (when enabled) or a single packet.

But if the MTU becomes too low to transmit even the header + the VLAN
specific part then the resizing of the local TT will never succeed. This
can for example happen when the usable space is 110 bytes and 11 VLANs are
on top of batman-adv. In this case, at least 116 byte would be needed.
There will just be an endless spam of

batman_adv: batadv0: Forced to purge local tt entries to fit new maximum fragment MTU (110)

in the log but the function will never finish. Problem here is that the
timeout will be halved all the time and will then stagnate at 0 and
therefore never be able to reduce the table even more.

There are other scenarios possible with a similar result. The number of
BATADV_TT_CLIENT_NOPURGE entries in the local TT can for example be too
high to fit inside a packet. Such a scenario can therefore happen also with
only a single VLAN + 7 non-purgable addresses - requiring at least 120
bytes.

While this should be handled proactively when:

* interface with too low MTU is added
* VLAN is added
* non-purgeable local mac is added
* MTU of an attached interface is reduced
* fragmentation setting gets disabled (which most likely requires dropping
attached interfaces)

not all of these scenarios can be prevented because batman-adv is only
consuming events without the the possibility to prevent these actions
(non-purgable MAC address added, MTU of an attached interface is reduced).
It is therefore necessary to also make sure that the code is able to handle
also the situations when there were already incompatible system
configuration are present.
History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 4e-05}

epss

{'score': 3e-05}


Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000


Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:45:00 +0000


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T09:09:48.633Z

Reserved: 2024-05-17T13:50:33.144Z

Link: CVE-2024-35982

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:21:48.996Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-05-20T10:15:12.687

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:21:21.300

Link: CVE-2024-35982

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-05-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-35982 - Bugzilla

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