# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31403"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:16:06.444Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:46.952Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-31403"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31403.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31403"
title: "NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd\n\nThe /proc/fs/nfs/exports proc entry is created at module init\nand persists for the module's lifetime. exports_proc_open()\ncaptures the caller's current network namespace and stores\nits svc_export_cache in seq-\u003eprivate, but takes no reference\non the namespace. If the namespace is subsequently torn down\n(e.g. container destruction after the opener does setns() to a\ndifferent namespace), nfsd_net_exit() calls nfsd_export_shutdown()\nwhich frees the cache. Subsequent reads on the still-open fd\ndereference the freed cache_detail, walking a freed hash table.\n\nHold a reference on the struct net for the lifetime of the open\nfile descriptor. This prevents nfsd_net_exit() from running --\nand thus prevents nfsd_export_shutdown() from freeing the cache\n-- while any exports fd is open. cache_detail already stores\nits net pointer (cd-\u003enet, set by cache_create_net()), so\nexports_release() can retrieve it without additional per-file\nstorage."
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