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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72466" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:09.847Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:25.296Z" 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-2026-72466" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72466.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72466" title: "xprtrdma: Fix bcall rep leak and unbounded peek" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxprtrdma: Fix bcall rep leak and unbounded peek\n\nrpcrdma_is_bcall() decodes a reply's first words to decide whether\nthe frame is a backchannel call. Two issues in that decode path\nlet a short or malformed reply leak the receive buffer and drain\nthe Receive queue.\n\nFirst, the speculative peek\n\n p = xdr_inline_decode(xdr, 0);\n /* five p++ reads follow */\n\nasks xdr_inline_decode() for zero bytes, which returns xdr-\u003ep\nwithout consulting xdr-\u003eend. The five subsequent __be32 reads can\nthen walk up to 20 bytes past the wire payload into stale regbuf\ncontents and misclassify the reply as a backchannel call.\n\nSecond, after the post-peek\n\n p = xdr_inline_decode(xdr, 3 * sizeof(*p));\n if (unlikely(!p))\n return true;\n\nthe short-header arm returns true without calling\nrpcrdma_bc_receive_call(). The contract with the caller is that a\ntrue return transfers ownership of rep to the backchannel path:\n\n rpcrdma_reply_handler()\n if (rpcrdma_is_bcall(r_xprt, rep))\n return; /* bare return, skips out_post */\n ...\n out_post:\n rpcrdma_post_recvs(r_xprt, credits + ...);\n\nBecause rpcrdma_bc_receive_call() never ran, no one took rep, but\nrpcrdma_reply_handler still bare-returns past rpcrdma_rep_put()\nand rpcrdma_post_recvs(). The rep, with its persistently\nDMA-mapped receive buffer, is orphaned on rb_all_reps and freed\nonly at transport teardown. This completion reposts nothing, so\nits slot is reclaimed only when a later forward-channel reply\nreaches out_post and rpcrdma_post_recvs() allocates a fresh rep to\nbackfill; absent that traffic the Receive queue drains and the\npeer's Sends draw RNR NAKs.\n\nFix by consulting xdr-\u003eend after the zero-length peek so the five\n__be32 reads cannot run unless 20 bytes of wire payload remain. A\nbyte-precise comparison against xdr-\u003eend is required because a\nnon-4-aligned receive rounds the stream's word count up past the\ntrue payload. Also return false from the short-header arm so the\nreply falls through the normal out_norqst cleanup chain\n(rpcrdma_rep_put() plus rpcrdma_post_recvs())." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0cee8f9c3b14bd6dee9c4310090a7f45b89b834f"},{"version":"41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7afc2f8d2fd9394724df9eaf22ce7a71029a5fba"},{"version":"41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88b5346284a184a6b7d019912232a571d672d3e3"},{"version":"41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07aa506436be7634e381e1e1f6d0efa9efc81ecc"},{"version":"41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7a2870dde3bb09d51d6b9c877642996ad6b92dd"},{"version":"41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"118a16a18c59f7ad8084b2d13988839b669fca10"},{"version":"41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7653d5cebc8492c77ec0415b5e9c0fb3e644bc6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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