CVE-2026-98252

Name	CVE-2026-98252
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/core: fix refcount bug in iwpm_get_nlmsg_request() iwpm_get_nlmsg_request() initializes refcount _after_ list_add_tail() making it accessible to global list where another CPU can kref_get() on nlmsg_request causing a refcount "addition on 0" bug. Fix this by initializing kref _before_ list_add_tail() so refcount for nlmsg_request can be incremented/decremented normally. In addition, also initialize every field before list_add_tail().
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4841-1, DLA-4850-1, DSA-6568-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.190-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.113-1	fixed
	forky, sid	7.2.12-1	fixed
linux-6.12 (PTS)	bookworm (security)	6.12.113-1~deb12u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.190-1	DLA-4841-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.113-1	DSA-6568-1
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.8-1
linux-6.12	source	bookworm	6.12.113-1~deb12u1	DLA-4850-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/33fb59da49c4c3f5c2ec9f9d4447a56857a02c02 (7.3-rc4)