# 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-2026-72467"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:10.499Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:15:12.570Z"
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-2026-72467"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72467.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72467"
title: "xprtrdma: Check frwr_wp_create() during connect"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxprtrdma: Check frwr_wp_create() during connect\n\nfrwr_wp_create() creates the singleton Memory Region used to encode\npadding for Write chunks whose payload length is not XDR-aligned. Its\nfailure paths return a negative errno and leave ep-\u003ere_write_pad_mr set\nto NULL.\n\nrpcrdma_xprt_connect() currently ignores that return value. If\nfrwr_wp_create() fails after the rest of the connection setup succeeds,\nxprt_rdma_connect_worker() treats the connection attempt as successful\nand sets XPRT_CONNECTED. A later NFS/RDMA read with a non-4-byte-aligned\nreceive page length reaches rpcrdma_encode_write_list(), passes the NULL\nwrite-pad MR to encode_rdma_segment(), and dereferences it.\n\nThis is locally triggerable on an NFS/RDMA client after a connect or\nreconnect hits a local MR allocation, DMA-map, MR-map, or post-send\nfailure; a remote peer alone cannot force the local MR setup failure.\n\nCheck the return value and fail the connect as -ENOTCONN, matching the\nadjacent setup failures. This keeps XPRT_CONNECTED clear and lets the\nnormal reconnect path retry."
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