In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi: Fix user refcount...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmi: Fix user refcount underflow in event delivery
ipmi_alloc_recv_msg(user) takes the temporary user reference owned by the receive message, and ipmi_free_recv_msg() drops it again. If event delivery fails after allocating receive messages for earlier users, handle_read_event_rsp() rolls those messages back with ipmi_free_recv_msg().
That rollback path still drops user->refcount explicitly after freeing each message. The extra put can free a user that remains linked on intf->users, so later event delivery may dereference a freed user or trip refcount_t's addition-on-zero warning when ipmi_alloc_recv_msg() tries to acquire another reference.
Remove the stale explicit put and the now-dead user assignment. Keep the list_del() and ipmi_free_recv_msg() calls; they are the required rollback operations.
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72042
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aa9e61c46465d231e9beddf56af7effd71be682
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7be349d4fcc5e065295b83418a22d27a68afbdb6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddbb6e3dc9bb4743de686aa1598c31e745cee76b
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vqpc-pm2x-2835