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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-68417

| EUVDEUVD-2026-55603 HIGH
2026-08-10 Linux GHSA-f5gm-g4v9-mv95
Information Disclosure Linux
7.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Linux
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Vendor (Linux) PRIMARY
7.8 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
7.0 HIGH

Race condition requires timing precision (AC:H); local access with low privileges needed to use RDMA device interface; full kernel memory impact if race is won.

3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
7.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat
5.5 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (Linux).

CVSS VectorVendor: Linux

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Aug 14, 2026 - 02:42 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Aug 13, 2026 - 23:37 NVD
7.8 (HIGH)
Patch available
Aug 10, 2026 - 14:18 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 10, 2026 - 12:04 cve.org
HIGH 7.8
CVE Published
Aug 10, 2026 - 12:04 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/siw: publish QP after initialization

siw_create_qp() currently calls siw_qp_add() before the queues, CQ pointers, state, completion, and device list entry are ready. A QPN lookup can therefore reach a QP that is still being constructed.

Move siw_qp_add() to the end of siw_create_qp(), after QP initialization and before adding the QP to the siw device list.

AnalysisAI

Race condition in the Linux kernel RDMA/siw (Software iWARP) subsystem exposes partially-constructed Queue Pair (QP) objects to concurrent lookups during QP creation. Affected kernels from 5.3 onward allow a local, low-privileged user on systems with the siw driver loaded to trigger a QPN lookup that resolves to a QP whose queues, CQ pointers, state, and device list entry have not yet been initialized. This can result in kernel memory corruption, information disclosure, or system availability loss - all three impact dimensions confirmed by the CVSS C:H/I:H/A:H rating. No public exploit or active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been identified; EPSS is 0.16% at the 5th percentile.

Technical ContextAI

The siw module (Software iWARP) provides an RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) implementation over standard TCP/IP in the Linux kernel. When a Queue Pair (QP) is created via siw_create_qp(), the implementation incorrectly calls siw_qp_add() - which publishes the QP's identifier into a globally accessible lookup table - before the QP's internal state (receive/send queues, completion queue pointers, atomic state machine, device list linkage) is fully initialized. A concurrent thread performing a QPN lookup during this window can obtain a pointer to the uninitialized QP structure and operate on it, constituting a classic use-before-initialization race (effectively CWE-362 / CWE-908, though NVD lists CWE as N/A). CPE data confirms affected product as cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux:*. The siw driver was introduced in Linux 5.3, establishing the lower bound of affected kernels.

RemediationAI

Upgrade the Linux kernel to a patched stable release: 6.6.148 or later for the 6.6 LTS branch, 6.12.101 or later for the 6.12 LTS branch, 6.18.42 or later for the 6.18 branch, 7.1.6 or later for 7.1, or 7.2-rc4 or later for the mainline release candidate. Patch commits are available at https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e91a58397ca8c978e38a0bf389f0c6113fa8ca (6.6), https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52f9fcb191143448df55fd215ff09c5207fed43e (6.12), https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb27fcc67c429d97f785c92c35a6c5adebb05d7f (6.18), https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcc9d50022bcdb1f9f7ed04955c72b4a7355af3d (7.1), and https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74912ad168f87d6b2b670a87987bb302d6e64aa1 (7.2-rc). For systems that cannot be patched immediately, unloading or blacklisting the siw kernel module (modprobe -r siw and adding blacklist siw to /etc/modprobe.d/) eliminates the attack surface entirely with the trade-off of disabling Software iWARP RDMA functionality. On systems not using RDMA at all, this workaround has no operational impact.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Important
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
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