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CVE-2026-72498 (GCVE-0-2026-72498)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:57 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:15
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Title
RDMA/bnxt_re: Avoid displaying the kernel pointer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/bnxt_re: Avoid displaying the kernel pointer While dumping the info on MR using the rdma tool, we dump the mr_hwq which is a kernel pointer. There is no need to expose this value for end user. So avoid it.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7363eb76b7f3b860ecfb8fcaf537e143bfd725bd , < 95d46a8d3ba9fdbe356fe7ed0117bc78dac9d557 (git)
Affected: 7363eb76b7f3b860ecfb8fcaf537e143bfd725bd , < 0c403e0786768d88cabe0ccf4e45425da2fd8841 (git)
Affected: 7363eb76b7f3b860ecfb8fcaf537e143bfd725bd , < 7d70c704a06f620d5d421ab76bac5e225bfb4308 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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