In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/efa: Fix use of completion ctx after free On admin queue completion handling, if the admin command completed with error we print data from the completion context. The issue is that we already freed the completion context in polling/interrupts handler which means we print data from context in an unknown state (it might be already used again). Change the admin submission flow so alloc/dealloc of the context will be symmetric and dealloc will be called after any potential use of the context.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd98aea1c0c45987fa2dd92f988b0eb1a72c125 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cf95fe5dc5471efea947b4c6f8913da6bc7976e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef3b06742c8a201d0e83edc9a33a89a4fe3009f8 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 5
- CwesCWE-416NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:18
- Cpes+9 CPE criteria (now 9)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:18
- StatusPublished → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:18
- CVSS7.8 (v3.1, CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:18
- First seenunscored · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:39
Affected (CPE criteria) 9
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd98aea1c0c45987fa2dd92f988b0eb1a72c125 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cf95fe5dc5471efea947b4c6f8913da6bc7976e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ba09d85f177e9f5f64b881f33dbcb57b2cf23d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c24b5179af260a5f36571c992d29aab1f448544
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef3b06742c8a201d0e83edc9a33a89a4fe3009f8 Patch