CVE-2026-46133

RDMA/rxe: Reject unknown opcodes before ICRC processing

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
May 28, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

RDMA/rxe: Reject unknown opcodes before ICRC processing

Even after applying commit 7244491dab34 ("RDMA/rxe: Validate pad and ICRC before payload_size() in rxe_rcv"), a single unauthenticated UDP packet can still trigger panic. That patch handled payload_size() underflow only for valid opcodes with short packets, not for packets carrying an unknown opcode. The unknown-opcode OOB read described below predates that commit and reaches back to the initial Soft RoCE driver.

The check added there reads

pkt->paylen < header_size(pkt) + bth_pad(pkt) + RXE_ICRC_SIZE

where header_size(pkt) expands to rxe_opcode[pkt->opcode].length. The rxe_opcode[] array has 256 entries but is only populated for defined IB opcodes; any other entry (for example opcode 0xff) is zero-initialized, so length == 0 and the check degenerates to

pkt->paylen < 0 + bth_pad(pkt) + RXE_ICRC_SIZE

which does not constrain pkt->paylen enough. rxe_icrc_hdr() then computes

rxe_opcode[pkt->opcode].length - RXE_BTH_BYTES

which underflows when length == 0 and passes a huge value to rxe_crc32(), causing an out-of-bounds read of the skb payload.

Reproduced on v7.0-rc7 with that fix applied, QEMU/KVM with CONFIG_RDMA_RXE=y and CONFIG_KASAN=y, after

rdma link add rxe0 type rxe netdev eth0

A single 48-byte UDP packet to port 4791 with BTH opcode=0xff and QPN=IB_MULTICAST_QPN triggers:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le+0x115/0x170 Read of size 1 at addr ... The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 704-byte region Call Trace: crc32_le+0x115/0x170 rxe_icrc_hdr.isra.0+0x226/0x300 rxe_icrc_check+0x13f/0x3a0 rxe_rcv+0x6e1/0x16e0 rxe_udp_encap_recv+0x20a/0x320 udp_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x7ed/0x12c0

Subsequent packets with the same shape fault on unmapped memory and panic the kernel. The trigger requires only module load and "rdma link add"; no QP, no connection, and no authentication.

Fix this by rejecting packets whose opcode has no rxe_opcode[] entry, detected via the zero mask or zero length, before any length arithmetic runs.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 to before 318787fa7193bd79691f2ebce4e80cb6abd0faefAffected
  • 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 to before 6a79b1ea0fcb2c998fda6a793050f66146e9cc42Affected
  • 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 to before 599cfdf44c1701c581cd4a21f1e1e03f8dc3840bAffected
  • 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 to before e3dc3a2fb05f4ed49c7f20594c4c52350d032189Affected
  • 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 to before f8ee926431a7bbec2b10c1290664af2cb290b983Affected
  • 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 to before 006a3a5f75345c6a0dbf13fd3ee01406e93b6733Affected
  • 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 to before 6fa18025e5782afff91415fd5217b39c1e4837d7Affected
  • 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 to before 4c6f86d85d03cdb33addce86aa69aa795ca6c47aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.8Affected
  • before 4.8Not affected
  • 5.10.258 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.209 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.175 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.140 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.88 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.30 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.7 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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