In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/srp: Set scmnd->result only when scmnd is not NULL
This change fixes the following kernel NULL pointer dereference
which is reproduced by blktests srp/007 occasionally.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000170
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:1H Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1+ #37
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.15.0-29-g6a62e0cb0dfe-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: 0x0 (kblockd)
RIP: 0010:srp_recv_done+0x176/0x500 [ib_srp]
Code: 00 4d 85 ff 0f 84 52 02 00 00 48 c7 82 80 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 4c 89 df 4c 89 14 24 e8 53 d3 4a f6 4c 8b 14 24 41 0f b6 42 13 <41> 89 87 70 01 00 00 41 0f b6 52 12 f6 c2 02 74 44 41 8b 42 1c b9
RSP: 0018:ffffaef7c0003e28 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9bc9486dea60 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000102 RSI: ffffffffb76bbd0e RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffff9bc980099a00 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffff9bca53ef0000 R11: ffff9bc980099a10 R12: ffff9bc956e14000
R13: ffff9bc9836b9cb0 R14: ffff9bc9557b4480 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9bc97ec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000170 CR3: 0000000007e04000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
__ib_process_cq+0xb7/0x280 [ib_core]
ib_poll_handler+0x2b/0x130 [ib_core]
irq_poll_softirq+0x93/0x150
__do_softirq+0xee/0x4b8
irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x130
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xc0
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it