CVE-2021-47076: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Return CQE error if invalid lkey was supplied RXE is missing update of WQE statu

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Return CQE error if invalid lkey was supplied RXE is missing update of WQE statu

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Return CQE error if invalid lkey was supplied RXE is missing update of WQE status in LOCAL_WRITE failures. This caused the following kernel panic if someone sent an atomic operation with an explicitly wrong lkey. [leonro@vm ~]$ mkt test test_atomic_invalid_lkey (tests.test_atomic.AtomicTest) ... WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 263 at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_comp.c:740 rxe_completer+0x1a6d/0x2e30 [rdma_rxe] Modules linked in: crc32_generic rdma_rxe ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel rdma_ucm rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5_core ptp pps_core CPU: 5 PID: 263 Comm: python3 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1+ #2936 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:rxe_completer+0x1a6d/0x2e30 [rdma_rxe] Code: 03 0f 8e 65 0e 00 00 3b 93 10 06 00 00 0f 84 82 0a 00 00 4c 89 ff 4c 89 44 24 38 e8 2d 74 a9 e1 4c 8b 44 24 38 e9 1c f5 ff ff <0f> 0b e9 0c e8 ff ff b8 05 00 00 00 41 bf 05 00 00 00 e9 ab e7 ff RSP: 0018:ffff8880158af090 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888016a78000 RCX: ffffffffa0cf1652 RDX: 1fff

Description from the National Vulnerability Database, published by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

What it means for a small business

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How likely is an attack? The Exploit Prediction Scoring System, run by FIRST (the global association of security response teams), puts the odds of this one being exploited in the next 30 days at 0.23%, higher than 13% of CVEs. That’s low, but low isn’t zero, and the odds jump the day someone publishes an exploit. Scored October 29, 2026, updated daily.

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Sources

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