# 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-2026-98253"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:20.077Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:24.567Z"
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-2026-98253"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98253.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98253"
title: "RDMA/ucma: Serialize join and leave on copy_to_user failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/ucma: Serialize join and leave on copy_to_user failure\n\nrdma_join_multicast() queues RoCE work that later reads the ucma_multicast\nthrough event-\u003eparam.ud.private_data, then list_add()s the CMA multicast\nat the head of id_priv-\u003emc_list. rdma_leave_multicast() matches only by\nsockaddr and destroys the first hit.\n\nucma_process_join() used to drop ctx-\u003emutex after a successful join and\nretake it only if copy_to_user() failed. Two concurrent JOIN_MCAST calls\nwith the same address can therefore insert a second CMA entry before the\nfirst thread's leave. leave then cancels the newer work and the older\nworker still dereferences the ucma_multicast that the first thread frees.\n\nKeep ctx-\u003emutex held from rdma_join_multicast() through copy_to_user() and,\non -EFAULT, through rdma_leave_multicast() so leave cannot miss this join.\nDo not leave if join itself failed: that path never published this address\non mc_list, and a leave-by-addr would destroy an earlier successful join."
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