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CVE-2026-23384 — Linux Linux Kernel security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/ionic: Fix kernel stack leak in ionic_create_cq() struct ionic_cq_resp resp { __u32 cqid[2]; // offset 0 - PARTIALLY SET (see below) __u8 udma_mask; // offset 8 - SET (resp.udma_mask = vcq->udma_mask) __u8 rsvd[7]; // offset 9 - NEVER SET <- LEAK }; rsvd[7]: 7 bytes of stack memory leaked unconditionally. cqid[2]: The loop at line 1256 iterates over udma_idx but skips indices where !(vcq->udma_mask & BIT(udma_idx)). The array has 2 entries but udma_count could be 1, meaning cqid[1] might never be written via ionic_create_cq_common(). If udma_mask only has bit 0 set, cqid[1] (4 bytes) is also leaked. So potentially 11 bytes leaked.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-03-25
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
linux/kernel
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Affected products

  • linux / linux_kernel
  • linux / linux_kernel / 6.18
  • linux / linux_kernel / 7.0

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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