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GHSA-X8Q5-WJRH-HHX7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-23 15:31 – Updated: 2026-02-26 21:31

Details

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

RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()

Since nldev_deldev() (introduced by commit 060c642b2ab8 ("RDMA/nldev: Add support to add/delete a sub IB device through netlink") grabs a reference using ib_device_get_by_index() before calling ib_del_sub_device_and_put(), we need to drop that reference before returning -EOPNOTSUPP error.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2025-71157 (GCVE-0-2025-71157)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-23 14:25 – Updated: 2026-02-09 08:35

Title

RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put() Since nldev_deldev() (introduced by commit 060c642b2ab8 ("RDMA/nldev: Add support to add/delete a sub IB device through netlink") grabs a reference using ib_device_get_by_index() before calling ib_del_sub_device_and_put(), we need to drop that reference before returning -EOPNOTSUPP error.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

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Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20436f2742a92b7af…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe8d456080423b9ed…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa3c411d21ebc26ff…

Impacted products

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Linux

Affected: bca51197620a257e2954be99b16f05115c3b2630 , < 20436f2742a92b7afeb2504eb559a98d2196b001 (git)
Affected: bca51197620a257e2954be99b16f05115c3b2630 , < fe8d456080423b9ed410469fbd1e2098d3acce2b (git)
Affected: bca51197620a257e2954be99b16f05115c3b2630 , < fa3c411d21ebc26ffd175c7256c37cefa35020aa (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.64 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.4 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-X8Q5-WJRH-HHX7

CVE-2025-71157 (GCVE-0-2025-71157)

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