CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-31402

CriticalCVSS 9.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.49%

39th percentile - higher than 39% of all known CVEs

Summary

A heap overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's NFSD module (NFSv4.0) in the LOCK replay cache. The fixed 112-byte buffer cannot accommodate variable-length lock owner fields (up to 1024 bytes), leading to an out-of-bounds write.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker can remotely corrupt heap memory, potentially causing system crashes or privilege escalation. The exploit requires two cooperating NFSv4.0 clients.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit that limits response copying into the replay buffer). If patching is not possible, consider disabling NFSv4.0 or restricting NFS service access.

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix heap overflow in NFSv4.0 LOCK replay cache The NFSv4.0 replay cache uses a fixed 112-byte inline buffer (rp_ibuf[NFSD4_REPLAY_ISIZE]) to store encoded operation responses. This size was calculated based on OPEN responses and does not account for LOCK denied responses, which include the conflicting lock owner as a variable-length field up to 1024 bytes (NFS4_OPAQUE_LIMIT). When a LOCK operation is denied due to a conflict with an existing lock that has a large owner, nfsd4_encode_operation() copies the full encoded response into the undersized replay buffer via read_bytes_from_xdr_buf() with no bounds check. This results in a slab-out-of-bounds write of up to 944 bytes past the end of the buffer, corrupting adjacent heap memory. This can be triggered remotely by an unauthenticated attacker with two cooperating NFSv4.0 clients: one sets a lock with a large owner string, then the other requests a conflicting lock to provoke the denial. We could fix this by increasing NFSD4_REPLAY_ISIZE to allow for a full opaque, but that would increase the size of every stateowner, when most lockowners are not that large. Instead, fix this by checking the encoded response length against NFSD4_REPLAY_ISIZE before copying into the replay buffer. If the response is too large, set rp_buflen to 0 to skip caching the replay payload. The status is still cached, and the client already received the correct response on the original request.

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