CVE-2026-53188 (GCVE-0-2026-53188)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-25 08:39
Modified
2026-10-19 19:57
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/core: Validate the passed in fops for ib_get_ucaps() Sashiko pointed out it is not safe to rely only on the devt because char/block alias so if the user finds a block device with the same dev_t it can masquerade as a ucap cdev fd. Test the f_ops to only accept authentic cdevs.
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Linux Linux Version: 61e51682816d395307f78ae06d640089054c28ab
Version: 61e51682816d395307f78ae06d640089054c28ab
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