# CVE-2025-71133: RDMA/irdma: avoid invalid read in irdma_net_event

> A missing check in the Linux kernel's irdma driver allows an invalid memory read, potentially causing a crash or KASAN report.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 14 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-71133, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71133, GHSA-gj7m-g33r-w8rg, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-71133, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-71133, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-71133, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-71133, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71133

## What is CVE-2025-71133?

CVE-2025-71133 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

RDMA/irdma: avoid invalid read in irdma_net_event

irdma_net_event() should not dereference anything from "neigh" (alias
"ptr") until it has checked that the event is NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE.
Other events come with different structures pointed to by "ptr" and they
may be smaller than struct neighbour.

Move the read of neigh->dev under the NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE case.

The bug is mostly harmless, but it triggers KASAN on debug kernels:

 BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in irdma_net_event+0x32e/0x3b0 [irdma]
 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900075e07f0 by task kworker/27:2/542554

 CPU: 27 PID: 542554 Comm: kworker/27:2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-630.el9.x86_64+debug #1
 Hardware name: [...]
 Workqueue: events rt6_probe_deferred
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0xb0
  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3f0
  print_report+0xb4/0x270
  kasan_report+0x92/0xc0
  irdma_net_event+0x32e/0x3b0 [irdma]
  notifier_call_chain+0x9e/0x180
  atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x5c/0x110
  rt6_do_redirect+0xb91/0x1080
  tcp_v6_err+0xe9b/0x13e0
  icmpv6_notify+0x2b2/0x630
  ndisc_redirect_rcv+0x328/0x530
  icmpv6_rcv+0xc16/0x1360
  ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xb84/0x12e0
  ip6_input_finish+0x117/0x240
  ip6_input+0xc4/0x370
  ipv6_rcv+0x420/0x7d0
  __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x118/0x1b0
  process_backlog+0xd1/0x5d0
  __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xa3/0x440
  net_rx_action+0x78a/0xba0
  handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9c0
  do_softirq+0xad/0xe0
  </IRQ>

Weakness: CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-71133?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-71133?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-71133 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71133 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-71133 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-71133 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71133 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71133/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71133/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71133
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71133
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-71133

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