CVE-2026-72497: Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 6.12, before 7.1.5 (fixed in 7.1.5)

Published 2026-08-15. Last modified 2026-08-17.