Hi,

On Sun, May 03, 2026 at 11:13:59AM -0300, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm reviewing Matheus Polkorny's changes for 4.4.15 security update and
> found that CVE-2026-6526 might affect 4.4.x. It's not mentioned in the
> release notes nor in wnpa-sec-2026-35, but the fix was merged [1] in the
> 4.4 stable branch. I've asked for a clarification from upstream [2].

To loop back:

|The function is called in fewer places in 4.4.x (the POC doesn't work
|on 4.4) and by inspection it appears that all the times that it is
|called in 4.4 the prefix is guaranteed to exist via other checks
|beforehand. However, out of an abundance of caution it didn't hurt to
|cherry pick the fix.

So I believe we can keep the tracking as it is now.

Regards,
Salvatore

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