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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72469" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:11.829Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:44:59.460Z" 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-2026-72469" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72469.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72469" title: "xprtrdma: Fix ep kref imbalance on ADDR_CHANGE" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxprtrdma: Fix ep kref imbalance on ADDR_CHANGE\n\nrpcrdma_cm_event_handler() falls through to the disconnected: label\non RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_CHANGE and calls rpcrdma_ep_put() with no\nmatching get when the event arrives before RDMA_CM_EVENT_ESTABLISHED.\nThe kref then underflows during connect teardown and\nrpcrdma_xprt_disconnect() operates on a freed ep.\n\nReference counts across a normal connection lifecycle:\n\n rpcrdma_ep_create() kref_init -\u003e1\n rpcrdma_xprt_connect() ep_get -\u003e2 (before post_recvs)\n RDMA_CM_EVENT_ESTABLISHED ep_get -\u003e3\n RDMA_CM_EVENT_DISCONNECTED ep_put -\u003e2\n rpcrdma_xprt_drain() ep_put -\u003e1\n rpcrdma_xprt_disconnect() tail ep_put -\u003e0 (ep_destroy)\n\nThe connect-time get in rpcrdma_xprt_connect(), taken just before\nrpcrdma_post_recvs() \"while there are outstanding Receives,\" is\nbalanced by rpcrdma_xprt_drain. ADDR_CHANGE before ESTABLISHED has\nno get to consume, so its put drops the count to 1 and the drain\nput then frees the ep while rpcrdma_xprt_disconnect() still holds a\npointer to it.\n\nFix by dispatching on the prior re_connect_status via xchg(): for\nprev == 0 (pre-ESTABLISHED) wake the connect waiter and return with\nno put; for prev == 1 call rpcrdma_force_disconnect() and return.\nThe case-1 arm relies on the subsequent RDMA_CM_EVENT_DISCONNECTED\nevent -- reliably delivered when rdma_disconnect() is called on a\nstill-connected cm_id -- to balance the ESTABLISHED get;\nrpcrdma_xprt_drain() continues to balance only that connect-time\nget. Any other prior value means teardown is already in flight." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2acc5cae292355f5f18ad377a2a966e7f03c8fec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a562485c359d0b20a99d466b042af9c2f7ff3326"},{"version":"2acc5cae292355f5f18ad377a2a966e7f03c8fec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfd1bab66b042da7a778786685125656c695931b"},{"version":"2acc5cae292355f5f18ad377a2a966e7f03c8fec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0479c2b12974aa188b10d221a5770126b118b6d"},{"version":"2acc5cae292355f5f18ad377a2a966e7f03c8fec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffc07790539736a5d029f6a3c966b46c529f93a8"},{"version":"2acc5cae292355f5f18ad377a2a966e7f03c8fec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af9b65b29af341932625c4283dc7a23cdb62688a"},{"version":"2fcbf07a4f23174a45e015b62a8e42ddbc2e53ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.7.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"6.6.160","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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