{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-72495", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-08-09T03:40:39.937Z", "datePublished": "2026-08-15T05:57:28.920Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-17T05:44:56.649Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-17T05:44:56.649Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/bnxt_re: Avoid repeated requests to allocate WC pages\n\nApplications can request multiple WC pages for the same ucontext.\nAs of now, only 1 WC page per ucontext is supported. Add a lock to\navoid concurrent access and a check to fail repeated requests.\nAlso, if the mmap entry insert fails for the WC, free the Doorbell\npage index mapped for the WC page." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 9.3, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The flaw is in BNXT_RE_METHOD_ALLOC_PAGE, reached only via write/ioctl on /dev/infiniband/uverbs* after IB ucontext creation; remote RoCE packet handling and in-kernel RDMA target/server paths never invoke this WC DPI allocation routine.\nAC:L - An attacker can deterministically trigger the bug by issuing repeated or concurrent BNXT_RE_ALLOC_WC_PAGE calls from multiple threads on the same ucontext; they control both sides of the race and need no uncontrollable memory layout or victim-specific state.\nPR:N - Standard uverbs character devices are created mode 0666, so any local process can open the bnxt_re device, allocate a ucontext, and invoke BNXT_RE_METHOD_ALLOC_PAGE without CAP_SYS_ADMIN, init-namespace root, or other elevated capabilities.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is required; exploitation needs only the attacker (or a compromised local RDMA workload) repeatedly or concurrently calling ALLOC_PAGE on resources it already controls through normal RDMA verbs.\nS:C - On HPC/cloud hosts exposing bnxt_re to tenant containers or unprivileged RDMA workloads, corrupting shared per-device DPI bookkeeping or exhausting finite doorbell indices crosses the container/tenant boundary to impact the host/kernel security authority.\nC:H - Without serialization or duplicate checks, corrupt DPI index bookkeeping and premature slot reuse can alias WC doorbell BAR pages across contexts, exposing other users' doorbell state and providing resource-corruption primitives usable for information disclosure.\nI:H - Destroying one ALLOC_PAGE object can deallocate another object's live WC DPI slot while its BAR mmap remains active, letting a later allocation share the same doorbell page and enabling cross-context WC doorbell writes that corrupt other tenants' RDMA queue signaling.\nA:H - Each orphaned DPI entry permanently consumes a finite per-device doorbell index (exhaustible via repeated or concurrent ALLOC_PAGE), denying RDMA service cluster-wide; unsynchronized wcdpi updates can also destabilize kernel DPI teardown paths." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c", "drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.h", "drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/uapi.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "360da60d6c6edb9740de7a8e6d8969d62ceff956", "lessThan": "478c4d24193fe3e6aa2accd4874ae43000e4a217", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "360da60d6c6edb9740de7a8e6d8969d62ceff956", "lessThan": "da406b8b49c1dfe661a497483940d7ee781430db", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "360da60d6c6edb9740de7a8e6d8969d62ceff956", "lessThan": "441baa79043431807115fd030d7d0bb14ed441a0", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c", "drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.h", "drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/uapi.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.5", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.5", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.40", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.1.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.2", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.40" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "7.1.5" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/478c4d24193fe3e6aa2accd4874ae43000e4a217" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da406b8b49c1dfe661a497483940d7ee781430db" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/441baa79043431807115fd030d7d0bb14ed441a0" } ], "title": "RDMA/bnxt_re: Avoid repeated requests to allocate WC pages", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }