CVE-2026-53395
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: fix dead ACL conflict guard in nfsd4_create
nfsd4_create() steals create->cr_dpacl/cr_pacl into the local
nfsd_attrs via the designated initializer, then immediately sets the
source pointers to NULL. The subsequent conflict guard tests the
already-nilled source fields, making it permanently dead code:
if (create->cr_acl) {
if (create->cr_dpacl || create->cr_pacl) /* always false */
When a client encodes both FATTR4_WORD0_ACL and
FATTR4_WORD2_POSIX_{DEFAULT,ACCESS}_ACL in the same CREATE fattr
bitmap, nfsd4_acl_to_attr() overwrites attrs.na_pacl/na_dpacl without
releasing the originals, leaking two posix_acl slab objects per
request. Repeated requests cause unbounded slab exhaustion.
Fix by checking attrs.na_dpacl/na_pacl (the stolen values) instead of
the nilled create->cr_dpacl/cr_pacl, matching the correct pattern
already used in nfsd4_setattr().
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Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | — | d2ca50606f5f0235d7780c1cd73b6614a5d07620 < 8371cc5c0a2cc2a71b3dcfd47ff1f7fcfc526a5e, d2ca50606f5f0235d7780c1cd73b6614a5d07620 < a60f25a800846ab8e5a13f8a9d05111f2aee55a7 |
| Linux | Linux | — | 7.0, 0 < 7.0, 7.1.3 ≤ 7.1.*, 7.2-rc1 ≤ * |
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