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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98354"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:41.768Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:04.973Z"
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-2026-98354"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98354.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98354"
title: "RDMA/mad: Fix receive buffer leak when PKey enforcement fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/mad: Fix receive buffer leak when PKey enforcement fails\n\nib_mad_complete_recv() initializes mad_recv_wc-\u003ermpp_list and then runs\nib_mad_enforce_security() before linking recv_buf onto that list.  On\nfailure it calls ib_free_recv_mad(), which only walks rmpp_list and frees\nthe ib_mad_private of every buffer found there.  As the list is still\nempty at that point, nothing is freed at all.\n\nThe caller cannot clean up either: ib_mad_recv_done() sets recv to NULL\nright after ib_mad_complete_recv() returns, assuming the MAD layer took\nownership of the buffer.  Every MAD that fails the PKey check therefore\nleaks one ib_mad_private (about 300 bytes per IB port MAD, ~2K for OPA),\nand a remote node can trigger this repeatedly by sending MADs with a\nwrong PKey.\n\nLink recv_buf onto rmpp_list right after the list is initialized, so the\nerror path has something to free."
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