CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-47316

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.62%

46th percentile - higher than 46% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a NULL dereference in nfs3svc_encode_getaclres in nfsd was fixed, occurring in error cases when dentry may be NULL.

Risk Assessment

The crash could lead to unavailability of NFS services or the entire system, especially in error scenarios.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a patched version and monitor system logs for NFS errors.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix NULL dereference in nfs3svc_encode_getaclres In error cases the dentry may be NULL. Before 20798dfe249a, the encoder also checked dentry and d_really_is_positive(dentry), but that looks like overkill to me--zero status should be enough to guarantee a positive dentry. This isn't the first time we've seen an error-case NULL dereference hidden in the initialization of a local variable in an xdr encoder. But I went back through the other recent rewrites and didn't spot any similar bugs.

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