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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98071" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:12.085Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:13:20.944Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98071" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98071.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98071" title: "net/rds: clear cp_flags bits individually in rds_conn_path_reset()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/rds: clear cp_flags bits individually in rds_conn_path_reset()\n\nrds_conn_path_reset() wipes the whole flag word with a plain\ncp-\u003ecp_flags = 0 store. Every other accessor of that word uses\natomic bitops, and some of them can run concurrently with the reset:\nRDS_LL_SEND_FULL is set from rds_send_xmit() and cleared from the\ntransport completion paths, neither of which holds anything that\nexcludes the shutdown worker. A plain store racing an atomic\nread-modify-write on the same word is a data race, and whichever\nside loses has its update silently discarded.\n\nClear the two bits the reset is actually responsible for instead.\nRDS_IN_XMIT and RDS_RECV_REFILL need no store at all here: they\nbelong to the caller, rds_conn_shutdown(), which waits for both to be\nclear before calling the transport shutdown and this reset.\n\nThis also gives every bit in cp_flags a single well-defined writer\ndiscipline, which the following patches rely on when they turn\nRDS_IN_XMIT and RDS_RECV_REFILL into bit locks held across the\nteardown: a blanket store mid-teardown would destroy lock ownership\nthat an atomic clear preserves.\n\nOracle UEK carries the same conversion (\"net/rds: Preserve essential\nconnection state flags\"), motivated by its asynchronous shutdown\nstate machine, whose progress and destroy flags must survive the\nreset. UEK's variant also clears RDS_IN_XMIT and RDS_RECV_REFILL\nbecause there the reset runs as the final step of a teardown that\nowns both bits, making those clears its unlock. Upstream that\nrelease belongs in rds_conn_shutdown(): once a later patch in this\nseries turns the two bits into locks held across the teardown, ending\nownership needs release semantics and a wake-up that a plain clear\ninside the reset would not provide.\n\nBased on Oracle UEK commit \"net/rds: Preserve essential connection\nstate flags\" by Gerd Rausch." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"00e0f34c616603ba6500f41943cbf89eb4a8a5be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9a7c1eb0ad41dcf004a9e870e452cafedcd9172"},{"version":"00e0f34c616603ba6500f41943cbf89eb4a8a5be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b767b48614c38687d717082860de7aa46f3b142c"},{"version":"00e0f34c616603ba6500f41943cbf89eb4a8a5be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7dc5da660eb5ffa7f7b4d33f2c74cb71c6edd6c"},{"version":"00e0f34c616603ba6500f41943cbf89eb4a8a5be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8a8b6d25e7426a638c60eaba2129c0664131e84"},{"version":"00e0f34c616603ba6500f41943cbf89eb4a8a5be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed3ee0ac4aafda50c2f4381eb973beefeb7879ac"},{"version":"00e0f34c616603ba6500f41943cbf89eb4a8a5be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b8d7563c28b8112e6e54abe413b028ef3f8c549"},{"version":"00e0f34c616603ba6500f41943cbf89eb4a8a5be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb62aa8f04655a4df487913949719c0a1266ed73"},{"version":"00e0f34c616603ba6500f41943cbf89eb4a8a5be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"103c4b13c4f50322910078d1c02f29334a574122"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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