CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-68418

Low risk· EPSS 5%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the RDMA/irdma driver has a vulnerability that allows a user to trigger a null pointer dereference during QP creation. If the user provides a zero value in the user_wqe_bufs field, the iwqp->iwpbl field is not initialized and later dereferenced unconditionally, causing a crash. The fix unconditionally calls irdma_get_pbl and bails on failure.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with user privileges can cause a kernel panic or potentially escalate privileges, posing a serious threat to system availability and integrity.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply the kernel patch that fixes this vulnerability immediately and update the system to a kernel version containing the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Prevent user-triggered null deref on QP create Previously, the user QP creation path would only attempt to populate iwqp->iwpbl if the user-provided req.user_wqe_bufs field was non-zero. The problem is that iwqp->iwpbl is unconditionally dereferenced later on in irdma_setup_virt_qp. While there was a check for iwqp->iwpbl != NULL, this check would only occur if req.user_wqe_bufs was non-zero. The end result is that a user could send a zero user_wqe_bufs value and trigger a null ptr deref. Fix this by unconditionally calling irdma_get_pbl and bailing if it fails, similar to the CQ and SRQ paths.

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