# CVE-2024-42285: RDMA/iwcm: Fix a use-after-free related to destroying CM IDs

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-08-17 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.8

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/iwcm: Fix a use-after-free related to destroying CM IDs iw_conn_req_handler() associates a new struct rdma_id_private (conn_id) with an existing struct iw_cm_id (cm_id) as follows: conn_id->cm_id.iw = cm_id; cm_id->context = conn_id; cm_id->cm_handler = cma_iw_handler; rdma_destroy_id() frees both the cm_id and the struct rdma_id_private. Make sure that cm_work_handler() does not trigger a use-after-free by only freeing of the struct rdma_id_private after all pending work has finished.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d91d253c87fd1efece521ff2612078a35af673c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f25f296fc9bd0435be14e89bf657cd615a23574
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94ee7ff99b87435ec63211f632918dc7f44dac79
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/557d035fe88d78dd51664f4dc0e1896c04c97cf6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc8074b8901caabb97c2d353abd6b4e7fa5a59a5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff5bbbdee08287d75d72e65b72a2b76d9637892a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee39384ee787e86e9db4efb843818ef0ea9cb8ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aee2424246f9f1dadc33faa78990c1e2eb7826e4

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