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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98366" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:51.638Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:18.297Z" 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-2026-98366" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98366.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98366" title: "RDMA/rxe: validate access flags before swapping the MR's PD" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/rxe: validate access flags before swapping the MR's PD\n\nrxe_rereg_user_mr() reassigns mr-\u003eibmr.pd first and only then\nvalidates the IB_MR_REREG_ACCESS argument:\n\n\tif (flags & IB_MR_REREG_PD) {\n\t\trxe_put(old_pd);\n\t\trxe_get(pd);\n\t\tmr-\u003eibmr.pd = ibpd;\n\t}\n\n\tif (flags & IB_MR_REREG_ACCESS) {\n\t\tif (access & ~RXE_ACCESS_SUPPORTED_MR)\n\t\t\treturn ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);\n\t\tmr-\u003eaccess = access;\n\t}\n\nBoth flags pass the entry check because RXE_MR_REREG_SUPPORTED is\nIB_MR_REREG_PD | IB_MR_REREG_ACCESS, so a caller can reach the access\ncheck with mr-\u003eibmr.pd already reassigned.\n\nmr-\u003eibmr.pd is owned by the core, which adjusts pd-\u003eusecnt only on the\nsuccess path: ib_uverbs_rereg_mr() jumps to put_new_uobj on a driver error\nwithout undoing the reassignment, so mr-\u003epd == new_pd while the usecnts\nstill charge the MR to orig_pd. ib_dereg_mr_user() then decrements\nnew_pd, whose count can reach zero while a memory window still references\nit; uverbs_free_pd() frees the PD on that count alone and rxe_mw_cleanup()\nwrites to freed memory:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __rxe_put+0x31/0xa0\n Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881301dd690 by task rxe_poc/591\n __rxe_put+0x31/0xa0\n rxe_mw_cleanup+0x42/0x200\n __rxe_cleanup+0x115/0x370\n rxe_dealloc_mw+0x4c/0x80\n Allocated by task 591:\n ib_uverbs_alloc_pd+0x258/0x540\n Freed by task 591:\n ib_dealloc_pd_user+0x174/0x210\n uverbs_free_pd+0x8d/0xc0\n ib_uverbs_dealloc_pd+0x18e/0x1d0\n\nValidate the access flags before mutating any state so the callback either\napplies every requested change or none." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08f12745cb72981aa2cabe214af0c7a42a856f0a"},{"version":"544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7230cc456d4bb2221c20c5f1d22b38b8576aa16f"},{"version":"544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fe602c91a52e161ace4afd5bdb8f33270c554c6f"},{"version":"544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4dd7a53f1c5b44693c26dac4b9b5bd5bb9d604c8"},{"version":"544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae36a5b609ae79f4de966328b78d2584be9719a4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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