Race condition in the cm_work_handler function in the InfiniBand driver (drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows…

Description

Race condition in the cm_work_handler function in the InfiniBand driver (drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) by sending an InfiniBand request while other request handlers are still running, which triggers an invalid pointer dereference.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

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  • affected n/a

References (8)

• USN-1146-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2011:0927 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [linux-rdma] 20110223 [PATCH 2/2] ib/cm: Bump reference count on cm_id before invoking callback (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• kernel-infiniband-dos(66056) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110311 CVE-2011-0695 kernel: panic in ib_cm:cm_work_handler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 43693 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [linux-rdma] 20110223 [PATCH 1/2] rdma/cm: Fix crash in request handlers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 46839 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 21:58 UTC.