# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74297"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:01.414Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:31.425Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74297"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74297.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74297"
title: "RDMA/mlx5: Fix undefined shift of user RQ WQE size"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/mlx5: Fix undefined shift of user RQ WQE size\n\nset_rq_size() computes the RQ WQE size as \"1 \u003c\u003c rq_wqe_shift\" based on\nthe user-provided rq_wqe_shift, which is only checked to be greater than\n32, so shifts of 32 are still accepted. A shift of 31 also overflows a\nsigned integer, leading to undefined behavior.\n\nUse check_shl_overflow() to compute the RQ WQE size and reject any\ninvalid values."
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