What is GHSA-66r3-8x6w-f98f?

GHSA-66r3-8x6w-f98f is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/bnxt_re: Add a max slot...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-66r3-8x6w-f98f cover?

GHSA-66r3-8x6w-f98f covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-72497. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-66r3-8x6w-f98f?

GHSA-66r3-8x6w-f98f has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-66r3-8x6w-f98fHighCVSS 8.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/bnxt_re: Add a max slot...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 15, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-72497 →

📋 Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/bnxt_re: Add a max slot check for SQ

The variable WQE mode must be validated against the maximum slots supported by HW. The max supported value is 64K. Adding a max and min check and fail if user supplied value is more than the max supported and zero.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72497
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a59d815cbe667929b693b5fa6716a074e6a31c5b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc95931b7e1326dacae547874bf38c092e5960d8
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-66r3-8x6w-f98f