CVE-2026-31403: NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd The /proc/fs/nfs/exports proc entry is created at module init and persists for the module's lifetime. exports_proc_open() captures the caller's current network namespace and stores its svc_export_cache in seq->private, but takes no reference on the namespace. If the namespace is subsequently torn down (e.g. container destruction after the opener does setns() to a different namespace), nfsd_net_exit() calls nfsd_export_shutdown() which frees the cache. Subsequent reads on the still-open fd dereference the freed cache_detail, walking a freed hash table. Hold a reference on the struct net for the lifetime of the open file descriptor. This prevents nfsd_net_exit() from running -- and thus prevents nfsd_export_shutdown() from freeing the cache -- while any exports fd is open. cache_detail already stores its net pointer (cd->net, set by cache_create_net()), so exports_release() can retrieve it without additional per-file storage.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 76740c28050dc6db2f5550f1325b00a11bbb3255 (from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5) · < c7f406fb341d6747634b8b1fa5461656e5e56076 (from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5) · < d1a19217995df9c7e4118f5a2820c5032fef2945 (from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5) · < e3d77f935639e6ae4b381c80464c31df998d61f4 (from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5) · < db4a9f99b12a7ee1c19d86c83a3b752c7effa6c6 (from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5) · < 6a8d70e2ad6aad2c345a5048edcb8168036f97d6 (from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5)
- Linux / Linux3.9Fixed in 0, 5.10.253, 6.1.167, 6.6.130, 6.12.78, 6.18.20, 6.19.10, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H