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CVE-2023-54276

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2023
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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nfsd: move init of percpu reply_cache_stats counters back to nfsd_init_net

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: move init of percpu reply_cache_stats counters back to nfsd_init_net Commit f5f9d4a314da ("nfsd: move reply cache initialization into nfsd startup") moved the initialization of the reply cache into nfsd startup, but didn't account for the stats counters, which can be accessed before nfsd is ever started. The result can be a NULL pointer dereference when someone accesses /proc/fs/nfsd/reply_cache_stats while nfsd is still shut down. This is a regression and a user-triggerable oops in the right situation: - non-x86_64 arch - /proc/fs/nfsd is mounted in the namespace - nfsd is not started in the namespace - unprivileged user calls "cat /proc/fs/nfsd/reply_cache_stats" Although this is easy to trigger on some arches (like aarch64), on x86_64, calling this_cpu_ptr(NULL) evidently returns a pointer to the fixed_percpu_data. That struct looks just enough like a newly initialized percpu var to allow nfsd_reply_cache_stats_show to access it without Oopsing. Move the initialization of the per-net+per-cpu reply-cache counters back into nfsd_init_net, while leaving the rest of the reply cache allocations to be done at nfsd startup time. Kudos to Eirik who did most of the legwork to track this down.

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)
4e18b58b106e34ac69d3052dd91f520bd83cf2fcaffectedgit3025d489f9c8984d1bf5916c4a20097ed80fca5cUnavailableNone listed
70fdee548c036c6bdb496f284c9e78f1654b6dd0affectedgit8549384d0f65981761fe2077d04fa2a8d37b54e0UnavailableNone listed
e7e571ed4ec7bb50136233d8e7b986efef2af8c1affectedgit66a178177b2b3bb1d71e854c5e7bbb320eb0e566UnavailableNone listed
f5f9d4a314da88c0a5faa6d168bf69081b7a25aeaffectedgit768c408594b52d8531e1a8ab62e5620c19213e73UnavailableNone listed
f5f9d4a314da88c0a5faa6d168bf69081b7a25aeaffectedgited9ab7346e908496816cffdecd46932035f66e2eUnavailableNone 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)
6.3affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.3UnavailableNone listed
6.4.4unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.4.*None listed
6.5unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed