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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74395"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:07.798Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:18:34.634Z"
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-2026-74395"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74395.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74395"
title: "RDMA/mlx5: Fix devx subscribe-event unwind NULL dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/mlx5: Fix devx subscribe-event unwind NULL dereference\n\nMLX5_IB_METHOD_DEVX_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT() links event_sub into sub_list\nbefore initializing the fields used by the shared error path.\n\nIf eventfd_ctx_fdget() then fails, the unwind path dereferences\nevent_sub-\u003eev_file in uverbs_uobject_put() and calls\nsubscribe_event_xa_dealloc() with an unset xa_key_level1.\n\nsubscribe_event_xa_alloc() creates the XA entry exactly once for a given\nkey_level1, on the first occurrence of that key. The unwind path must\ntherefore call subscribe_event_xa_dealloc() exactly once for it as well.\n\nEnforce that by adding devx_key_in_sub_list() and calling\nsubscribe_event_xa_dealloc() only when the last matching pending entry is\nbeing cleaned up."
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