RDMA/mlx5: Fix undefined shift of user RQ WQE size (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74297
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Fix undefined shift of user RQ WQE size set_rq_size() computes the RQ WQE size as "1 << rq_wqe_shift" based on the user-provided rq_wqe_shift, which is only checked to be greater than 32, so shifts of 32 are still accepted. A shift of 31 also overflows a signed integer, leading to undefined behavior. Use check_shl_overflow() to compute the RQ WQE size and reject any invalid values.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c < 9fff54929cc00849d738faa99f06c32399aeb026 ; affected e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c < b746f949c2ac2b041102836095d6d4a2ef21fa75 ; affected e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c < c1dbf52d24a8cb1aa56780ba51b72e7d495f258c ; affected e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c < 6fc874fdfb366bfb11c62e6af9a831c8be59ddda ; affected e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c < 42f3d2c8c18b92ea33e506a38b64f1a8986c2823 ; affected e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c < 4b87a2497276a72fd63028e7419abf0fb7ed837b
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.11 ; unaffected 0 < 3.11 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD