CVE-2026-53396

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This violates RFC 7530/8881 which require\nthe server to reject unsupported attributes on CREATE.\n\nWhen start_creating() fails after ACL attributes have been populated\nin attrs (either via nfsd4_acl_to_attr or via ownership transfer from\nopen->op_dpacl/op_pacl), the function jumps to out_write which skips\nnfsd_attrs_free(). The posix_acl allocations are leaked. A client\ncan trigger this repeatedly with OPEN(CREATE), ACL attributes, and an\ninvalid filename (e.g., longer than NAME_MAX).\n\nFix both by capturing the nfsd4_acl_to_attr() return value and by\nchanging the early error paths to jump to out instead of out_write.\nInitialize child to ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) so that end_creating() is safe\nto call even if start_creating() was never reached."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H", "baseScore": 7.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - The vulnerable code is reached via NFSv4 OPEN(CREATE) handled by nfsd over the network (RPC on TCP/2049), from nfsd4_proc_compound() through nfsd4_open() and do_open_lookup() into nfsd4_create_file().\nAC:L - An authenticated NFS client can reliably trigger the leak by sending OPEN(CREATE) with ACL attributes and a filename that causes start_creating() to fail (e.g., longer than the backing filesystem NAME_MAX); no race or attacker-uncontrollable conditions are required.\nPR:L - Exploitation requires an authenticated NFS client with write/create permission on the target export directory (enforced by fh_verify()/nfsd_permission), which maps to basic authorized-user access rather than unauthenticated or server-admin privileges.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is needed beyond the attacker sending crafted NFSv4 compound requests to the server.\nS:U - Impact is confined to kernel memory management and exported file metadata within the NFS server's security authority; it does not cross VM, container, or IOMMU boundaries.\nC:N - The bug is a refcount leak of posix_acl kernel objects with no out-of-bounds read, use-after-free, or other mechanism that exposes kernel memory to the attacker.\nI:L - The ignored nfsd4_acl_to_attr() error allows files to be created without the requested ACL while returning NFS4_OK, causing limited but incorrect modification of exported file security attributes on shared storage.\nA:H - Repeated triggering leaks unbounded posix_acl slab objects per request, enabling sustained kernel memory exhaustion that can deny NFS service and degrade overall system availability."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c"], "versions": [{"version": "7ab96df840e60eb933abfe65fc5fe44e72f16dc0", "lessThan": "18cf006a08babec0bbac2a3784f8f28e56e47490", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "7ab96df840e60eb933abfe65fc5fe44e72f16dc0", "lessThan": "24c975bbdd564d7d0ad90294bfa69729830345de", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.19", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.19", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.1.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.19", "versionEndExcluding": "7.1.3"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.19", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18cf006a08babec0bbac2a3784f8f28e56e47490"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24c975bbdd564d7d0ad90294bfa69729830345de"}], "title": "nfsd: fix posix_acl leak and ignored error in nfsd4_create_file", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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