# 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-2026-98257"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:22.722Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:28.470Z"
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-2026-98257"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98257.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98257"
title: "rds: ib: use rds_conn_drop() on protocol version mismatch"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrds: ib: use rds_conn_drop() on protocol version mismatch\n\nrds_ib_cm_connect_complete() runs from the RDMA-CM event handler with\nconn-\u003ec_cm_lock held.  When the peer negotiates a protocol version\nolder than RDS_PROTOCOL_COMPAT_VERSION, the handler calls\nrds_conn_destroy(), which is only safe in the rmmod path: it\nsynchronously tears the connection down and flush_work()es the\nshutdown work cp_down_w.\n\nThat shutdown work (rds_conn_shutdown()) needs cp_cm_lock, which is\nthe very lock the event handler still holds, so the flush never\ncompletes: the two workers wait on each other and the RDS connection\nworkqueues stall for good.\n\nAll other RDMA-CM failure paths (REJECTED, CONNECT_ERROR,\nDISCONNECTED) use rds_conn_drop(), which marks the connection\nRDS_CONN_ERROR and schedules the shutdown work asynchronously.  Use\nit here as well."
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