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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53394"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:01:57.261Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:46.251Z"
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-2026-53394"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53394.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53394"
title: "nfsd: avoid leaking pre-allocated openowner on unconfirmed retry race"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: avoid leaking pre-allocated openowner on unconfirmed retry race\n\nWhen find_or_alloc_open_stateowner() encounters an unconfirmed owner, it\ncalls release_openowner() and sets oo = NULL. Control then falls through\npast the `if (oo)` guard -- which would have freed any pre-allocated\n`new` -- and unconditionally executes `new = alloc_stateowner(...)`. If\n`new` was already allocated on a prior iteration, the pointer is\nsilently overwritten and the previous allocation (slab object + owner\nname buffer) is leaked.\n\nThis requires a race: two NFSv4.0 OPEN threads with the same owner\nstring, where a concurrent thread inserts a new unconfirmed owner into\nthe hash between retry iterations. The window is narrow but repeatable\nunder adversarial conditions.\n\nFix by adding `goto retry` after `oo = NULL` so the already-allocated\n`new` is reused on the next iteration rather than overwritten."
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