CVE-2026-90423

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There is an\nIS_ERR_OR_NULL(umem) check at the start of ib_umem_release().\nBut since mr->umem is NOT reset to NULL in the error handling\npath of rxe_odp_mr_init_user(), the check passes and it reads\nalready-freed fields like umem->is_dmabuf, causing UAF.\n\nFix the UAF by clearing mr->umem after releasing the failed\nODP umem so the MR cleanup path does not release it again."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The attacker-controlled bytes are cmd.access_flags (IB_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND), cmd.start and cmd.length from IB_USER_VERBS_CMD_REG_MR written to /dev/infiniband/uverbsN; ib_uverbs_write\u2192ib_uverbs_reg_mr\u2192rxe_reg_user_mr\u2192rxe_odp_mr_init_user. Soft-RoCE packet receive never supplies that REG_MR command.\nAC:L - rxe_odp_init_pages() fails when ib_umem_odp_map_dma_and_lock() returns an error from hmm_range_fault(); a second thread in the same process can munmap the REG_MR VA so rxe_ib_invalidate_range() keeps invalidating the mmu_interval until HMM_RANGE_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT (1000ms) expires with -EBUSY. The UAF on that error path is then deterministic.\nPR:L - uverbs_devnode() publishes /dev/infiniband/uverbs* as 0666; ib_uverbs_open, ib_uverbs_get_context, ib_uverbs_alloc_pd and ib_uverbs_reg_mr have no capability checks, and rxe_init_device_param sets IBK_ON_DEMAND_PAGING so ib_check_mr_access() accepts IB_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND.\nUI:N - The attacker opens uverbs, allocates a PD, and issues REG_MR with IB_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND against a VA range they own; no other user must mount, open, or confirm anything.\nS:U - rxe_mr_cleanup() calls ib_umem_release() on the dangling mr->umem inside the same host kernel; this does not cross a KVM, Xen, or IOMMU boundary.\nC:H - After ib_umem_odp_release() kfree's umem_odp, ib_umem_release(mr->umem) reads the freed umem->is_dmabuf and umem->is_odp; slab reuse lets the attacker control those flags and later pointers such as ibdev and owning_mm.\nI:H - The dangling mr->umem still has is_odp set, so ib_umem_release() calls ib_umem_odp_release() again and kfree's the already-freed umem_odp, a heap double-free write primitive.\nA:H - The UAF load of umem->is_dmabuf in ib_umem_release() and the second free of umem_odp oops or KASAN-crash the kernel."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c"], "versions": [{"version": "d03fb5c6599e31b90c6b5f65d43d6ccc6b49eb91", "lessThan": "5f1933163327c9f1c8f2a341c6cb551aaf231ff9", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "d03fb5c6599e31b90c6b5f65d43d6ccc6b49eb91", "lessThan": "4cfb448705da3171d44d9cbe7be53ff03284d532", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "d03fb5c6599e31b90c6b5f65d43d6ccc6b49eb91", "lessThan": "51f2c8d2c99fc1f452f7113c08a35edcc4bf8732", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.15", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.15", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.52", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.6", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.52"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.6"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f1933163327c9f1c8f2a341c6cb551aaf231ff9"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cfb448705da3171d44d9cbe7be53ff03284d532"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51f2c8d2c99fc1f452f7113c08a35edcc4bf8732"}], "title": "RDMA/rxe: Fix UAF in ODP init error-handling path", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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