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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-52995" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:08.229Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:08.229Z" 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-2026-52995" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52995.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52995" title: "net/rds: zero per-item info buffer before handing it to visitors" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/rds: zero per-item info buffer before handing it to visitors\n\nrds_for_each_conn_info() and rds_walk_conn_path_info() both hand a\ncaller-allocated on-stack u64 buffer to a per-connection visitor and\nthen copy the full item_len bytes back to user space via\nrds_info_copy() regardless of how much of the buffer the visitor\nactually wrote.\n\nrds_ib_conn_info_visitor() and rds6_ib_conn_info_visitor() only\nwrite a subset of their output struct when the underlying\nrds_connection is not in state RDS_CONN_UP (src/dst addr, tos, sl\nand the two GIDs via explicit memsets). Several u32 fields\n(max_send_wr, max_recv_wr, max_send_sge, rdma_mr_max, rdma_mr_size,\ncache_allocs) and the 2-byte alignment hole between sl and\ncache_allocs remain as whatever stack contents preceded the visitor\ncall and are then memcpy_to_user()'d out to user space.\n\nstruct rds_info_rdma_connection and struct rds6_info_rdma_connection\nare the only rds_info_* structs in include/uapi/linux/rds.h that are\nnot marked __attribute__((packed)), so they have a real alignment\nhole. The other info visitors (rds_conn_info_visitor,\nrds6_conn_info_visitor, rds_tcp_tc_info, ...) write all fields of\ntheir packed output struct today and are not known to be vulnerable,\nbut a future visitor that adds a conditional write-path would have\nthe same bug.\n\nReproduction on a kernel built without CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO=y:\na local unprivileged user opens AF_RDS, sets SO_RDS_TRANSPORT=IB,\nbinds to a local address on an RDMA-capable netdev (rxe soft-RoCE on\nany netdev is sufficient), sendto()'s any peer on the same subnet\n(fails cleanly but installs an rds_connection in the global hash in\nRDS_CONN_CONNECTING), then calls getsockopt(SOL_RDS,\nRDS_INFO_IB_CONNECTIONS). The returned 68-byte item contains 26\nbytes of stack garbage including kernel text/data pointers:\n\n 0..7 0a 63 00 01 0a 63 00 02 src=10.99.0.1 dst=10.99.0.2\n 8..39 00 ... gids (memset-zeroed)\n 40..47 e0 92 a3 81 ff ff ff ff kernel pointer (max_send_wr)\n 48..55 7f 37 b5 81 ff ff ff ff kernel pointer (rdma_mr_max)\n 56..59 01 00 08 00 rdma_mr_size (garbage)\n 60..61 00 00 tos, sl\n 62..63 00 00 alignment padding\n 64..67 18 00 00 00 cache_allocs (garbage)\n\nFix by zeroing the per-item buffer in both rds_for_each_conn_info()\nand rds_walk_conn_path_info() before invoking the visitor. This\ncovers the IPv4/IPv6 IB visitors and hardens all current and future\nvisitors against the same class of bug.\n\nNo functional change for visitors that fully populate their output.\n\nChanges in v2:\n- retarget at the net tree (subject prefix \"[PATCH net v2]\",\n net/rds: prefix in the title)\n- pick up Reviewed-by tags from Sharath Srinivasan and\n Allison Henderson" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ec16227e14141e4fd7ae76354c09dadfe2449d9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81651e9d7dea1c048d2952f57632a042931d7b43"},{"version":"ec16227e14141e4fd7ae76354c09dadfe2449d9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0797b2e6901827694aa9c34c4c72118c8c97fba1"},{"version":"ec16227e14141e4fd7ae76354c09dadfe2449d9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e67cc262afb384e835c3327e9d954eeaedc6a87"},{"version":"ec16227e14141e4fd7ae76354c09dadfe2449d9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6ba93a7b71ed443c9843eb12d27ed86f1e52694"},{"version":"ec16227e14141e4fd7ae76354c09dadfe2449d9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7cb9eed8215a790f052f49cdccf577720d2bb62"},{"version":"ec16227e14141e4fd7ae76354c09dadfe2449d9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91ce1bb6e4194dc2321748f68145359dcf86e350"},{"version":"ec16227e14141e4fd7ae76354c09dadfe2449d9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"912ba2e5704fdb8bc5decda96dfc1a57838f0099"},{"version":"ec16227e14141e4fd7ae76354c09dadfe2449d9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c88eb7e8d8397a8c1db59c425332c5a30b2a1682"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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