Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-53395
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().
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 27.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-53395
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1.2