# 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-2026-98360"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:46.743Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:11.284Z"
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-2026-98360"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98360.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98360"
title: "RDMA/rxe: insert mcg into mcg_tree only after rxe_mcast_add() succeeds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/rxe: insert mcg into mcg_tree only after rxe_mcast_add() succeeds\n\nrxe_get_mcg() publishes a newly allocated multicast group in\nrxe-\u003emcg_tree before programming the backing Ethernet multicast address\nwith rxe_mcast_add(), which runs outside mcg_lock. A local userspace\nRDMA client reaches this path with ATTACH_MCAST on a UD QP; if\nrxe_mcast_add() then returns an error (for example -ENODEV when the\nbacking netdev has been removed, or a propagated dev_mc_add() error),\nthe unwind frees the published group without removing it from the tree.\nA later lookup of the same MGID dereferences the freed struct rxe_mcg\nfrom __rxe_lookup_mcg().\n\nFix this by keeping the new mcg private until rxe_mcast_add() succeeds.\nSplit the tree publication into __rxe_publish_mcg(), call rxe_mcast_add()\nbefore taking the tree reference, and free the still-private mcg on\nfailure. Because the group is never visible in mcg_tree until the\nmulticast address is programmed, no concurrent caller can look it up or\nattach a QP to a group that is about to be torn down, so the error path\nneeds no conditional unwind. If another caller publishes the same MGID\nwhile the address is being programmed, the post-add re-check under\nmcg_lock finds the winner; this caller then drops its private object and\nbalances its own rxe_mcast_add() with rxe_mcast_del() before returning\nthe winner.\n\nReproduced by forcing the rxe_mcast_add() error return under KASAN:\nwithout the change the next attach to the same MGID reports a\nslab-use-after-free in __rxe_lookup_mcg(); with it the forced failure\nreturns cleanly. A no-injection attach/detach regression, including a\ntwo-QP shared join/leave and re-attach, stays KASAN- and leak-clean."
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