Security Advisory

CVE-2026-72495

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-15 05:57:28
Last updated 2026-08-17 05:44:56
Assigner Linux
CVSS score 9.3
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/bnxt_re: Avoid repeated requests to allocate WC pages Applications can request multiple WC pages for the same ucontext. As of now, only 1 WC page per ucontext is supported. Add a lock to avoid concurrent access and a check to fail repeated requests. Also, if the mmap entry insert fails for the WC, free the Doorbell page index mapped for the WC page.