CVE-2026-98367 (GCVE-0-2026-98367)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-06 08:46 – Updated: 2026-10-07 06:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
RDMA/siw: Clear association under lock if siw_qp_modify fails in siw_accept
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/siw: Clear association under lock if siw_qp_modify fails in siw_accept
We need to clear cep before release state_lock as siw_qp_llp_close and
siw_qp_modify->siw_qp_llp_close did.
Otherwise if siw_qp_modify() fails in siw_accept(), the QP's state_lock
is released before the error path cleanup. A concurrent ibv_modify_qp()
transitioning the QP to ERROR can race in this window:
siw_accept() ibv_modify_qp(ERROR)
---------------------- ----------------------
siw_qp_modify() fails
up_write(&qp->state_lock)
down_write(&qp->state_lock)
nextstate_from_idle():
if (qp->cep)
siw_cep_put(qp->cep) <- frees cep
qp->cep = NULL
goto error
cep->qp = NULL <- UAF
Clear qp->cep and drop the association reference taken by siw_cep_get(),
all under the write lock held from the initial down_write(&qp->state_lock).
Thread B therefore sees qp->cep == NULL, skips its own put, and cannot free
the cep before siw_accept() is done with it.
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6c52fdc244b5ccc468006fd65a504d4ee33743c7 , < f11e09fe2fc3a11ccdf8f932b68181b0bb1d2078
(git)
Affected: 6c52fdc244b5ccc468006fd65a504d4ee33743c7 , < e3f039082856adab7e195dea1af45d93dd6a3f1c (git) Affected: 6c52fdc244b5ccc468006fd65a504d4ee33743c7 , < ad50d19f3d1ce052b3a146143581e930a1efb33e (git) Affected: 6c52fdc244b5ccc468006fd65a504d4ee33743c7 , < 030306bbb9273af80f14d7af20129661964cd9a7 (git) Affected: 6c52fdc244b5ccc468006fd65a504d4ee33743c7 , < df2584750314336edcbcc21fb388e04b260f35b7 (git) Affected: 6c52fdc244b5ccc468006fd65a504d4ee33743c7 , < 9dcc0f4e488b70cff81e0e5717a498c929cf5de3 (git) Affected: 6c52fdc244b5ccc468006fd65a504d4ee33743c7 , < bfdc744bf20ae4c3ef2e470298de5237c5c9a13c (git) Affected: 6c52fdc244b5ccc468006fd65a504d4ee33743c7 , < 32cd87f54dd1070020e664ccb0312a9f0fea79b4 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.3 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.271 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.222 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.189 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.112 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.54 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.8 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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