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CVE-2026-53394 (GCVE-0-2026-53394)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 12:01 – Updated: 2026-08-17 04:50
VLAI
Title
nfsd: avoid leaking pre-allocated openowner on unconfirmed retry race
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: avoid leaking pre-allocated openowner on unconfirmed retry race When find_or_alloc_open_stateowner() encounters an unconfirmed owner, it calls release_openowner() and sets oo = NULL. Control then falls through past the `if (oo)` guard -- which would have freed any pre-allocated `new` -- and unconditionally executes `new = alloc_stateowner(...)`. If `new` was already allocated on a prior iteration, the pointer is silently overwritten and the previous allocation (slab object + owner name buffer) is leaked. This requires a race: two NFSv4.0 OPEN threads with the same owner string, where a concurrent thread inserts a new unconfirmed owner into the hash between retry iterations. The window is narrow but repeatable under adversarial conditions. Fix by adding `goto retry` after `oo = NULL` so the already-allocated `new` is reused on the next iteration rather than overwritten.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 23df17788c6212809848f836b10c4f85b16843a5 , < c9aefb2b5f11337c9202c5bd0c45d71198449718 (git)
Affected: 23df17788c6212809848f836b10c4f85b16843a5 , < 017a6150106b054cc84d1b0582d97bd3a74d4281 (git)
Affected: 23df17788c6212809848f836b10c4f85b16843a5 , < a10bf67fe06469a71a401f72f328237345d553c0 (git)
Affected: 23df17788c6212809848f836b10c4f85b16843a5 , < 57aee7a35bb12753057c5b65d72d1f46c0e95b07 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.95 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.38 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.3 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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