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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26766" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-03T17:00:48.642Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:27:06.552Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26766" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26766.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26766" title: "IB/hfi1: Fix sdma.h tx-\u003enum_descs off-by-one error" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nIB/hfi1: Fix sdma.h tx-\u003enum_descs off-by-one error\n\nUnfortunately the commit `fd8958efe877` introduced another error\ncausing the `descs` array to overflow. This reults in further crashes\neasily reproducible by `sendmsg` system call.\n\n[ 1080.836473] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x400300015528b00a: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n[ 1080.869326] RIP: 0010:hfi1_ipoib_build_ib_tx_headers.constprop.0+0xe1/0x2b0 [hfi1]\n--\n[ 1080.974535] Call Trace:\n[ 1080.976990] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 1081.021929] hfi1_ipoib_send_dma_common+0x7a/0x2e0 [hfi1]\n[ 1081.027364] hfi1_ipoib_send_dma_list+0x62/0x270 [hfi1]\n[ 1081.032633] hfi1_ipoib_send+0x112/0x300 [hfi1]\n[ 1081.042001] ipoib_start_xmit+0x2a9/0x2d0 [ib_ipoib]\n[ 1081.046978] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc4/0x210\n--\n[ 1081.148347] __sys_sendmsg+0x59/0xa0\n\ncrash\u003e ipoib_txreq 0xffff9cfeba229f00\nstruct ipoib_txreq {\n txreq = {\n list = {\n next = 0xffff9cfeba229f00,\n prev = 0xffff9cfeba229f00\n },\n descp = 0xffff9cfeba229f40,\n coalesce_buf = 0x0,\n wait = 0xffff9cfea4e69a48,\n complete = 0xffffffffc0fe0760 \u003chfi1_ipoib_sdma_complete\u003e,\n packet_len = 0x46d,\n tlen = 0x0,\n num_desc = 0x0,\n desc_limit = 0x6,\n next_descq_idx = 0x45c,\n coalesce_idx = 0x0,\n flags = 0x0,\n descs = {{\n qw = {0x8024000120dffb00, 0x4} # SDMA_DESC0_FIRST_DESC_FLAG (bit 63)\n }, {\n qw = { 0x3800014231b108, 0x4}\n }, {\n qw = { 0x310000e4ee0fcf0, 0x8}\n }, {\n qw = { 0x3000012e9f8000, 0x8}\n }, {\n qw = { 0x59000dfb9d0000, 0x8}\n }, {\n qw = { 0x78000e02e40000, 0x8}\n }}\n },\n sdma_hdr = 0x400300015528b000, \u003c\u003c\u003c invalid pointer in the tx request structure\n sdma_status = 0x0, SDMA_DESC0_LAST_DESC_FLAG (bit 62)\n complete = 0x0,\n priv = 0x0,\n txq = 0xffff9cfea4e69880,\n skb = 0xffff9d099809f400\n}\n\nIf an SDMA send consists of exactly 6 descriptors and requires dword\npadding (in the 7th descriptor), the sdma_txreq descriptor array is not\nproperly expanded and the packet will overflow into the container\nstructure. This results in a panic when the send completion runs. The\nexact panic varies depending on what elements of the container structure\nget corrupted. The fix is to use the correct expression in\n_pad_sdma_tx_descs() to test the need to expand the descriptor array.\n\nWith this patch the crashes are no longer reproducible and the machine is\nstable." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d1c1ee052d25ca23735eea912f843bc7834781b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"115b7f3bc1dce590a6851a2dcf23dc1100c49790"},{"version":"40ac5cb6cbb01afa40881f78b4d2f559fb7065c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5833024a9856f454a964a198c63a57e59e07baf5"},{"version":"6cf8f3d690bb5ad31ef0f41a6206ecf5a068d179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f38d22e645e2e994979426ea5a35186102ff3c2"},{"version":"bd57756a7e43c7127d0eca1fc5868e705fd0f7ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47ae64df23ed1318e27bd9844e135a5e1c0e6e39"},{"version":"eeaf35f4e3b360162081de5e744cf32d6d1b0091","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52dc9a7a573dbf778625a0efca0fca55489f084b"},{"version":"fd8958efe8779d3db19c9124fce593ce681ac709","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2fef1d81becf4ff60e1a249477464eae3c3bc2a"},{"version":"fd8958efe8779d3db19c9124fce593ce681ac709","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9034a1bec35e9f725315a3bb6002ef39666114d9"},{"version":"fd8958efe8779d3db19c9124fce593ce681ac709","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6f57c6881916df39db7d95981a8ad2b9c3458d6"},{"version":"0ef9594936d1f078e8599a1cf683b052df2bec00","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.19.291","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19.308"},{"version":"5.4.251","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.270"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.211"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.150"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.80"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"4.19.308","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.211","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.150","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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