CVE-2026-23242 PUBLISHED

RDMA/siw: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in header processing

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.01.2026 Published: 18.03.2026 Updated: 18.03.2026

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

RDMA/siw: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in header processing

If siw_get_hdr() returns -EINVAL before set_rx_fpdu_context(), qp->rx_fpdu can be NULL. The error path in siw_tcp_rx_data() dereferences qp->rx_fpdu->more_ddp_segs without checking, which may lead to a NULL pointer deref. Only check more_ddp_segs when rx_fpdu is present.

KASAN splat: [ 101.384271] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c0-0x00000000000000c7] [ 101.385869] RIP: 0010:siw_tcp_rx_data+0x13ad/0x1e50

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to ab61841633d10e56a58c1493a262f0d02dba2f5e (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 8564dcc12fbb372d984ab45768cae9335777b274 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to ab957056192d6bd068b3759cb2077d859cca01f0 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to ffba40b67663567481fa8a1ed5d2da36897c175d (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 87b7a036d2c73d5bb3ae2d47dee23de465db3355 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 714c99e1dc8f85f446e05be02ba83972e981a817 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to ce025f7f5d070596194315eb2e4e89d568b8a755 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 14ab3da122bd18920ad57428f6cf4fade8385142 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.252 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.202 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.14 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc1 to * (incl.)

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