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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53392"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:01:56.101Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:46.094Z"
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-2026-53392"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53392.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53392"
title: "NFSv4/flexfiles: reject zero filehandle version count"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSv4/flexfiles: reject zero filehandle version count\n\nff_layout_alloc_lseg() decodes the filehandle-version array count\nfrom the flexfiles layout body. The value is used as the count for\nkzalloc_objs(), and the current code only rejects NULL.\n\nA zero count yields ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which can be stored in\ndss_info-\u003efh_versions even though later flexfiles paths assume that at\nleast one filehandle version exists.\n\nReject fh_count == 0 before the allocation, matching the existing zero\nversion_count validation in the flexfiles GETDEVICEINFO parser.\n\nA QEMU/KASAN run with a malformed flexfiles layout hit:\n\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]\n  RIP: 0010:ff_layout_encode_ff_layoutupdate.isra.0+0x15f/0x750\n  ff_layout_encode_layoutreturn+0x683/0x970\n  nfs4_xdr_enc_layoutreturn+0x278/0x3a0\n  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nThe patched kernel rejects the malformed layout without KASAN/oops/panic,\nand a valid fh_count=1 regression still opens, reads, and unmounts cleanly."
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