High [CVE-2026-64268] Remote out-of-bounds write in RDMA/siw
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-64268 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/siw: bound Read Response placement to the RREAD length In drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_rx.c, siw_proc_rresp() places each inbound Read Response DDP segment at sge->laddr + wqe->processed and then accumulates wqe->processed, but it never checks the running total against the sink buffer length on continuation segments. siw_check_sge() resolves and validates the sink memory only on the first fragment (the if (!*mem) branch), and siw_rresp_check_ntoh() compares the cumulative length against wqe->bytes only on the final segment (the!frx->more_ddp_segs guard).
A connected siw peer that answers an outstanding RREAD with Read Response segments that keep the DDP Last flag clear, carrying more total payload than the RREAD requested, drives wqe->processed past the validated sink buffer; the next siw_rx_data() call writes out of bounds at sge->laddr + wqe->processed. siw runs iWARP over ordinary routable TCP, so the peer is the remote end of an established RDMA connection and needs no local privilege.
Bound every segment before placement, exactly as siw_proc_send() and siw_proc_write() already do for their tagged and untagged paths, and terminate the connection with a base-or-bounds DDP error when the Read Response would overrun the sink buffer. This is the second receive-path length fix for this file.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.159.1.rt7.500.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-553.159.1.el8_10
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.44.1.el9_8
- RHSA-2026:63013
- RHSA-2026:63014
- RHSA-2026:63129
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Mitigation checklist
- To mitigate this issue, prevent the `siw` kernel module from loading. Create a file `/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-siw.conf` with the following content: ``` blacklist siw install siw /bin/true ``` After creating the file, regenerate the initramfs and reboot the system for the changes to take effect: ```bash dracut -f -v reboot ``` This mitigation will disable the Soft iWARP functionality, which may impact applications relying on it. A system reboot is required for the changes to be fully applied.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 10 days ago·verify at source
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