# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45852"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:15:26.084Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:26:38.312Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-45852"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45852.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45852"
title: "RDMA/rxe: Fix double free in rxe_srq_from_init"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/rxe: Fix double free in rxe_srq_from_init\n\nIn rxe_srq_from_init(), the queue pointer 'q' is assigned to\n'srq-\u003erq.queue' before copying the SRQ number to user space.\nIf copy_to_user() fails, the function calls rxe_queue_cleanup()\nto free the queue, but leaves the now-invalid pointer in\n'srq-\u003erq.queue'.\n\nThe caller of rxe_srq_from_init() (rxe_create_srq) eventually\ncalls rxe_srq_cleanup() upon receiving the error, which triggers\na second rxe_queue_cleanup() on the same memory, leading to a\ndouble free.\n\nThe call trace looks like this:\n   kmem_cache_free+0x.../0x...\n   rxe_queue_cleanup+0x1a/0x30 [rdma_rxe]\n   rxe_srq_cleanup+0x42/0x60 [rdma_rxe]\n   rxe_elem_release+0x31/0x70 [rdma_rxe]\n   rxe_create_srq+0x12b/0x1a0 [rdma_rxe]\n   ib_create_srq_user+0x9a/0x150 [ib_core]\n\nFix this by moving 'srq-\u003erq.queue = q' after copy_to_user."
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