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CVE-2026-72494

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

9.8 Critical severity

Details

CVSS score
9.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

RDMA/irdma: Replace waitqueue and flag with completion

The driver previously used a waitqueue along with an explicit request_done flag, but without proper barriers around request_done.

An earlier patch by Gui-Dong Han <[email protected]> attempted to fix this by adding the missing memory barriers. Rather than adding the barriers, this patch replaces the waitqueue+flag with a completion, which is designed for this exact purpose.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU
Affected packages:
linux @ 4.19.0 (+6 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Ubuntu 26.04 Planned —