CVE-2025-71084

Updated on 13 Jan 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

RDMA/cm: Fix leaking the multicast GID table reference

If the CM ID is destroyed while the CM event for multicast creating is still queued the cancel_work_sync() will prevent the work from running which also prevents destroying the ah_attr. This leaks a refcount and triggers a WARN:

GID entry ref leak for dev syz1 index 2 ref=573 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 655 at drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:809 release_gid_table drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:806 [inline] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 655 at drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:809 gid_table_release_one+0x284/0x3cc drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:886

Destroy the ah_attr after canceling the work, it is safe to call this twice.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU Planned
AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU Planned
Amazon Linux 2023 Planned
Debian 11 Will Not Fix
Debian 11 cloud Will Not Fix
Debian 12 Planned
Debian 13 Planned
Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 In Progress
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 In Progress
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 Released
41 kernels
  • 6.8.0-35.35
  • 6.8.0-38.38
  • 6.8.0-36.36
  • 6.8.0-39.39
  • 6.8.0-40.40
  • 6.8.0-41.41
  • 6.8.0-44.44
  • 6.8.0-45.45
  • 6.8.0-31.31
  • 6.8.0-47.47
  • 6.8.0-48.48
  • 6.8.0-49.49
  • 6.8.0-50.51
  • 6.8.0-51.52
  • 6.8.0-52.53
  • 6.8.0-54.56
  • 6.8.0-55.57
  • 6.8.0-53.55
  • 6.8.0-56.58
  • 6.8.0-57.59
  • 6.8.0-58.60
  • 6.8.0-59.61
  • 6.8.0-60.63
  • 6.8.0-62.65
  • 6.8.0-63.66
  • 6.8.0-64.67
  • 6.8.0-71.71
  • 6.8.0-78.78
  • 6.8.0-79.79
  • 6.8.0-84.84
  • 6.8.0-85.85
  • 6.8.0-83.83
  • 6.8.0-86.87
  • 6.8.0-87.88
  • 6.8.0-88.89
  • 6.8.0-90.91
  • 6.8.0-94.96
  • 6.8.0-100.100
  • 6.8.0-101.101
  • 6.8.0-106.106
  • 6.8.0-107.107
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned