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CVE-2021-47107

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2021
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

NFSD: Fix READDIR buffer overflow

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Fix READDIR buffer overflow If a client sends a READDIR count argument that is too small (say, zero), then the buffer size calculation in the new init_dirlist helper functions results in an underflow, allowing the XDR stream functions to write beyond the actual buffer. This calculation has always been suspect. NFSD has never sanity- checked the READDIR count argument, but the old entry encoders managed the problem correctly. With the commits below, entry encoding changed, exposing the underflow to the pointer arithmetic in xdr_reserve_space(). Modern NFS clients attempt to retrieve as much data as possible for each READDIR request. Also, we have no unit tests that exercise the behavior of READDIR at the lower bound of @count values. Thus this case was missed during testing.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
37aa5e64022243e721b8334122997881177a4cfcaffectedgit9e291a6a28d32545ed2fd959a8165144d1724df1UnavailableNone listed
7f87fc2d34d475225e78b7f5c4eabb121f4282b2affectedgiteabc0aab98e5218ceecd82069b0d6fdfff5ee885UnavailableNone listed
7f87fc2d34d475225e78b7f5c4eabb121f4282b2affectedgit53b1119a6e5028b125f431a0116ba73510d82a72UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5.13affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.13UnavailableNone listed
5.15.12unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
5.16unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed