CVE-2026-46181CWE-366

CVE-2026-46181

High · published May 28, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

RDMA/mlx4: Fix mis-use of RCU in mlx4_srq_event()

Sashiko points out the radix_tree itself is RCU safe, but nothing ever

frees the mlx4_srq struct with RCU, and it isn't even accessed within the

RCU critical section. It also will crash if an event is delivered before

the srq object is finished initializing.

Use the spinlock since it isn't easy to make RCU work, use

refcount_inc_not_zero() to protect against partially initialized objects,

and order the refcount_set() to be after the srq is fully initialized.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00114 · 1.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-366 · Race Condition within a Thread
Published
2026-05-28T14:16Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.9, < 6.18.306.18.30
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 7.0.77.0.7
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (20)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b7833f3bce35cb0d01c1503781523c099c675f0 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9341307ea16b9395c2e4c9c94d8499d91fe31d0 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0dbd9355ce1e93808541260c7ffab7956df9233 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25120 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25121 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25217 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33900 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34094 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34095 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34443 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:35863 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:35894 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:35896 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36216 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41236 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46181 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482532 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-46181.json · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e2a44875b6afb4add1115f7f3351dcbeb6f273d · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d8b30b496bc53e961ba7415fd629fc27813017c · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 MAY 09:36Z
    RDMA/mlx4: Fix mis-use of RCU in mlx4_srq_event()
    cvelistv5