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CVE-2026-98252

RDMA/core: fix refcount bug in iwpm_get_nlmsg_request() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/core: fix refcount bug in iwpm_get_nlmsg_request() iwpm_get_nlmsg_request() initializes refcount _after_ list_add_tail() making it accessible to global list where another CPU can kref_get() on nlmsg_request causing a refcount "addition on 0" bug. Fix this by initializing kref _before_ list_add_tail() so refcount for nlmsg_request can be incremented/decremented normally. In addition, also initialize every field before list_add_tail().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 before 52c13c63bb3662c108244e7447055e30bf40244e; affected 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 before 8a91609032d47e77bcb37bc8f6e88d89340d2709; affected 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 before ce8a379598bd4058081416abea4279fd05a95374; affected 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 before 2fbac8a56004b6ce54fbfe845d4b25da6e0b55e8; affected 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 before 88e429a4e9bac3d2138011c5ca06254331f2587f; affected 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 before e15eb536be4f646ce683d2867572b2200be877f7; affected 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 before 117871cdb8927542abd7b65ce5995bf0265a8c05; affected 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 before 33fb59da49c4c3f5c2ec9f9d4447a56857a02c02
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.16; unaffected 0 before 3.16; unaffected 5.10.271 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.222 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.189 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.158 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.112 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.54 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.8 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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