# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23243"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-18T10:05:05.826Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:40.101Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23243"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23243.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23243"
title: "RDMA/umad: Reject negative data_len in ib_umad_write"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/umad: Reject negative data_len in ib_umad_write\n\nib_umad_write computes data_len from user-controlled count and the\nMAD header sizes. With a mismatched user MAD header size and RMPP\nheader length, data_len can become negative and reach ib_create_send_mad().\nThis can make the padding calculation exceed the segment size and trigger\nan out-of-bounds memset in alloc_send_rmpp_list().\n\nAdd an explicit check to reject negative data_len before creating the\nsend buffer.\n\nKASAN splat:\n[  211.363464] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ib_create_send_mad+0xa01/0x11b0\n[  211.364077] Write of size 220 at addr ffff88800c3fa1f8 by task spray_thread/102\n[  211.365867] ib_create_send_mad+0xa01/0x11b0\n[  211.365887] ib_umad_write+0x853/0x1c80"
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