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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-56779" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-01-08T17:49:17.070Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:00:29.011Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56779" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56779.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56779" title: "nfsd: fix nfs4_openowner leak when concurrent nfsd4_open occur" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: fix nfs4_openowner leak when concurrent nfsd4_open occur\n\nThe action force umount(umount -f) will attempt to kill all rpc_task even\numount operation may ultimately fail if some files remain open.\nConsequently, if an action attempts to open a file, it can potentially\nsend two rpc_task to nfs server.\n\n NFS CLIENT\nthread1 thread2\nopen(\"file\")\n...\nnfs4_do_open\n _nfs4_do_open\n _nfs4_open_and_get_state\n _nfs4_proc_open\n nfs4_run_open_task\n /* rpc_task1 */\n rpc_run_task\n rpc_wait_for_completion_task\n\n umount -f\n nfs_umount_begin\n rpc_killall_tasks\n rpc_signal_task\n rpc_task1 been wakeup\n and return -512\n _nfs4_do_open // while loop\n ...\n nfs4_run_open_task\n /* rpc_task2 */\n rpc_run_task\n rpc_wait_for_completion_task\n\nWhile processing an open request, nfsd will first attempt to find or\nallocate an nfs4_openowner. If it finds an nfs4_openowner that is not\nmarked as NFS4_OO_CONFIRMED, this nfs4_openowner will released. Since\ntwo rpc_task can attempt to open the same file simultaneously from the\nclient to server, and because two instances of nfsd can run\nconcurrently, this situation can lead to lots of memory leak.\nAdditionally, when we echo 0 to /proc/fs/nfsd/threads, warning will be\ntriggered.\n\n NFS SERVER\nnfsd1 nfsd2 echo 0 \u003e /proc/fs/nfsd/threads\n\nnfsd4_open\n nfsd4_process_open1\n find_or_alloc_open_stateowner\n // alloc oo1, stateid1\n nfsd4_open\n nfsd4_process_open1\n find_or_alloc_open_stateowner\n // find oo1, without NFS4_OO_CONFIRMED\n release_openowner\n unhash_openowner_locked\n list_del_init(&oo-\u003eoo_perclient)\n // cannot find this oo\n // from client, LEAK!!!\n alloc_stateowner // alloc oo2\n\n nfsd4_process_open2\n init_open_stateid\n // associate oo1\n // with stateid1, stateid1 LEAK!!!\n nfs4_get_vfs_file\n // alloc nfsd_file1 and nfsd_file_mark1\n // all LEAK!!!\n\n nfsd4_process_open2\n ...\n\n write_threads\n ...\n nfsd_destroy_serv\n nfsd_shutdown_net\n nfs4_state_shutdown_net\n nfs4_state_destroy_net\n destroy_client\n __destroy_client\n // won't find oo1!!!\n nfsd_shutdown_generic\n nfsd_file_cache_shutdown\n kmem_cache_destroy\n for nfsd_file_slab\n and nfsd_file_mark_slab\n // bark since nfsd_file1\n // and nfsd_file_mark1\n // still alive\n\n=======================================================================\nBUG nfsd_file (Not tainted): Objects remaining in nfsd_file on\n__kmem_cache_shutdown()\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSlab 0xffd4000004438a80 objects=34 used=1 fp=0xff11000110e2ad28\nflags=0x17ffffc0000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)\nCPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 757 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6+ #19\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\n1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dum\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3234975f477f746c22d076ea178a79ea104b2ca7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a85364f0d30dee01c5d5b4afa55a9629a8f36d8e"},{"version":"3234975f477f746c22d076ea178a79ea104b2ca7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d505a801e57428057563762f67a5a62009b2600"},{"version":"3234975f477f746c22d076ea178a79ea104b2ca7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ab0a3ad24e970e894abcac58f85c332d1726749"},{"version":"3234975f477f746c22d076ea178a79ea104b2ca7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45abb68c941ebc9a35c6d3a7b08196712093c636"},{"version":"3234975f477f746c22d076ea178a79ea104b2ca7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37dfc81266d3a32294524bfadd3396614f8633ee"},{"version":"3234975f477f746c22d076ea178a79ea104b2ca7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f73f920b7ad0084373e46121d7ac34117aed652"},{"version":"3234975f477f746c22d076ea178a79ea104b2ca7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98100e88dd8865999dc6379a3356cd799795fe7b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"5.4.287","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.231","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.174","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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