# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53391"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:01:55.521Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:45.936Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53391"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53391.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53391"
title: "NFSv4/pNFS: reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSv4/pNFS: reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr\n\nnfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr() decodes the r_netid and r_addr opaques of a\nnetaddr4 from a GETDEVICEINFO multipath-DS body, then immediately\ncalls strrchr(buf, '.') to locate the port separator. Both decodes\nuse xdr_stream_decode_string_dup(), and the current code checks only\n\"nlen \u003c 0\" / \"rlen \u003c 0\" before dereferencing the returned string.\n\nWhen the on-wire opaque has length zero, xdr_stream_decode_opaque_inline()\nreturns 0 and xdr_stream_decode_string_dup() falls through to its\n\"*str = NULL; return ret\" tail, leaving buf NULL with a return value\nof 0. The \"\u003c 0\" check does not catch this, and the next line is\nstrrchr(NULL, '.'), a kernel NULL pointer dereference reachable from\nany pNFS-flexfile client mounted against a malicious or compromised\nmetadata server.\n\nReject the zero-length cases explicitly so the decoder fails with\n-EBADMSG (treated as a malformed GETDEVICEINFO body) instead of\npanicking the client."
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