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CVE-2026-23243

RDMA/umad: Reject negative data_len in ib_umad_write PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/umad: Reject negative data_len in ib_umad_write ib_umad_write computes data_len from user-controlled count and the MAD header sizes. With a mismatched user MAD header size and RMPP header length, data_len can become negative and reach ib_create_send_mad(). This can make the padding calculation exceed the segment size and trigger an out-of-bounds memset in alloc_send_rmpp_list(). Add an explicit check to reject negative data_len before creating the send buffer. KASAN splat: [ 211.363464] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ib_create_send_mad+0xa01/0x11b0 [ 211.364077] Write of size 220 at addr ffff88800c3fa1f8 by task spray_thread/102 [ 211.365867] ib_create_send_mad+0xa01/0x11b0 [ 211.365887] ib_umad_write+0x853/0x1c80

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a before 1371ef6b1ecf3676b8942f5dfb3634fb0648128e; affected 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a before 362e45fd9069ffa1523f9f1633b606ebf72060d7; affected 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a before 6eb2919474ca105c5b13d19574e25f0ddcf19ca2; affected 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a before a6a3e4af10993cb9e4b8f0548680aba0ab5f3b0d; affected 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a before 9c80d688f402539dfc8f336de1380d6b4ee14316; affected 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a before 205955f29c26330b1dc7fdeadd5bb97c38e26f56; affected 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a before 52ab82cc5cf8ada5c3fb6ffe8f32fdb2fc27a34b; affected 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a before 5551b02fdbfd85a325bb857f3a8f9c9f33397ed2
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.24; unaffected 0 before 2.6.24; unaffected 5.10.252 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.202 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.165 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.128 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.75 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.14 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.4 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

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References

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