CVE-2025-22085 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel RDMA core device-name handling path. A stale device-name allocation can be accessed while RDMA netlink events are being constructed after an RDMA device name is renamed. The observed fault occurs in netlink attribute construction through fill_nldev_handle() and rdma_nl_notify_event().
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A use-after-free vulnerability in Linux kernel RDMA core code when renaming a device name, affecting Rocky Linux 9 kernel packages covered by CIQ advisory crlsa-2025_11861.
A Linux kernel RDMA-core use-after-free vulnerability triggered when renaming a device name.
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