GHSA-pv35-9gqp-7q2c · Severity: high — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Reject non-8-byte...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Reject non-8-byte ATOMIC_WRITE payloads atomic_write_reply() at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c unconditionally dereferences 8 bytes at payload_addr(pkt): value = *(u64 *)payload_addr(pkt); check_rkey() previously accepted an ATOMIC_WRITE request with pktlen == resid == 0 because the length validation only compared pktlen against resid. A remote initiator that sets the RETH length to 0 therefore reaches atomic_write_reply() with a zero-byte logical payload, and the responder reads sizeof(u64) bytes from past the logical end of the packet into skb->head tailroom, then writes those 8 bytes into the attacker's MR via rxe_mr_do_atomic_write(). That is a remote disclosure of 4 bytes of kernel tailroom per probe (the other 4 bytes are the packet's own trailing ICRC). IBA oA19-28 defines ATOMIC_WRITE as exactly 8 bytes. Anything else is protocol-invalid. Hoist a strict length check into check_rkey() so the responder never reaches the unchecked dereference, and keep the existing WRITE-family length logic for the normal RDMA WRITE path. Reproduced on mainline with an unmodified rxe driver: a sustained zero-length ATOMIC_WRITE probe repeatedly leaks adjacent skb head-buffer bytes into the attacker's MR, including recognisable kernel strings and partial kernel-direct-map pointer words. With this patch applied the responder rejects the PDU and the MR stays all-zero.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-46114 is rated Moderate Risk (43.2/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.47%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.06% | 0.47% | +0.41% |
| 2 | 2026-06-03 | 0.04% | 0.06% | +0.01% |
| 3 | 2026-05-30 | — | 0.04% | — |
Full EPSS history (4 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 7.5 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 3.6 | 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 |
GHSA-pv35-9gqp-7q2c · Severity: high — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Reject non-8-byte...
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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debian
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unimportant | CVE-2026-46114 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-46114 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46114 |
suse
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— | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46114/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2026-46114 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1422 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1024, ignored 169, released 84, not-affected 79, needed 66. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-46114 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
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| No affected products in dataset. | |||