{"id":"CVE-2026-23242","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-23242","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:46:33.005Z","title":"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.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/siw: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in header processing\n\nIf siw_get_hdr() returns -EINVAL before set_rx_fpdu_context(),\nqp->rx_fpdu can be NULL. The error path in siw_tcp_rx_data()\ndereferences qp->rx_fpdu->more_ddp_segs without checking, which\nmay lead to a NULL pointer deref. Only check more_ddp_segs when\nrx_fpdu is present.\n\nKASAN splat:\n[  101.384271] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c0-0x00000000000000c7]\n[  101.385869] RIP: 0010:siw_tcp_rx_data+0x13ad/0x1e50","published":"2026-03-18T11:16:16.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T19:17:43.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00614,"percentile":0.49203,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.61%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14ab3da122bd18920ad57428f6cf4fade8385142","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/714c99e1dc8f85f446e05be02ba83972e981a817","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8564dcc12fbb372d984ab45768cae9335777b274","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b7a036d2c73d5bb3ae2d47dee23de465db3355","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab61841633d10e56a58c1493a262f0d02dba2f5e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab957056192d6bd068b3759cb2077d859cca01f0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce025f7f5d070596194315eb2e4e89d568b8a755","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffba40b67663567481fa8a1ed5d2da36897c175d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23242","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}