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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-71096

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 1/13/2026 11:16:09 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

RDMA/core: Check for the presence of LS_NLA_TYPE_DGID correctly

The netlink response for RDMA_NL_LS_OP_IP_RESOLVE should always have a
LS_NLA_TYPE_DGID attribute, it is invalid if it does not.

Use the nl parsing logic properly and call nla_parse_deprecated() to fill
the nlattrs array and then directly index that array to get the data for
the DGID. Just fail if it is NULL.

Remove the for loop searching for the nla, and squash the validation and
parsing into one function.

Fixes an uninitialized read from the stack triggered by userspace if it
does not provide the DGID to a kernel initiated RDMA_NL_LS_OP_IP_RESOLVE
query.

    BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hex_byte_pack include/linux/hex.h:13 [inline]
    BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ip6_string+0xef4/0x13a0 lib/vsprintf.c:1490
     hex_byte_pack include/linux/hex.h:13 [inline]
     ip6_string+0xef4/0x13a0 lib/vsprintf.c:1490
     ip6_addr_string+0x18a/0x3e0 lib/vsprintf.c:1509
     ip_addr_string+0x245/0xee0 lib/vsprintf.c:1633
     pointer+0xc09/0x1bd0 lib/vsprintf.c:2542
     vsnprintf+0xf8a/0x1bd0 lib/vsprintf.c:2930
     vprintk_store+0x3ae/0x1530 kernel/printk/printk.c:2279
     vprintk_emit+0x307/0xcd0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2426
     vprintk_default+0x3f/0x50 kernel/printk/printk.c:2465
     vprintk+0x36/0x50 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:82
     _printk+0x17e/0x1b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2475
     ib_nl_process_good_ip_rsep drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:128 [inline]
     ib_nl_handle_ip_res_resp+0x963/0x9d0 drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:141
     rdma_nl_rcv_msg drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:-1 [inline]
     rdma_nl_rcv_skb drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:239 [inline]
     rdma_nl_rcv+0xefa/0x11c0 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:259
     netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
     netlink_unicast+0xf04/0x12b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
     netlink_sendmsg+0x10b3/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
     sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
     __sock_sendmsg+0x333/0x3d0 net/socket.c:729
     ____sys_sendmsg+0x7e0/0xd80 net/socket.c:2617
     ___sys_sendmsg+0x271/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2671
     __sys_sendmsg+0x1aa/0x300 net/socket.c:2703
     __compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:346 [inline]
     __do_compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:353 [inline]
     __se_compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:350 [inline]
     __ia32_compat_sys_sendmsg+0xa4/0x100 net/compat.c:350
     ia32_sys_call+0x3f6c/0x4310 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:371
     do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]
     __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb0/0x150 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:306
     do_fast_syscall_32+0x38/0x80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:331
     do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:3
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b948afc1ded88b3562c893114387f34389eeb94
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45532638de5da24c201aa2a9b3dd4b054064de7b
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d85524789c2f17c0e87de8d596bcccc3683a1fc
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7b8e876e0ef0232b8076972c57ce9a7286b47ca
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acadd4097d25d6bd472bcb3f9f3eba2b5105d1ec