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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68418"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:04:38.930Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:44:05.184Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68418"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68418.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68418"
title: "RDMA/irdma: Prevent user-triggered null deref on QP create"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/irdma: Prevent user-triggered null deref on QP create\n\nPreviously, the user QP creation path would only attempt to\npopulate iwqp-\u003eiwpbl if the user-provided req.user_wqe_bufs\nfield was non-zero. The problem is that iwqp-\u003eiwpbl is\nunconditionally dereferenced later on in irdma_setup_virt_qp.\n\nWhile there was a check for iwqp-\u003eiwpbl != NULL, this check\nwould only occur if req.user_wqe_bufs was non-zero. The end\nresult is that a user could send a zero user_wqe_bufs value\nand trigger a null ptr deref.\n\nFix this by unconditionally calling irdma_get_pbl and bailing\nif it fails, similar to the CQ and SRQ paths."
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