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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90149"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:43.671Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:06.603Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90149"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90149.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90149"
title: "NFSv4/flexfiles: fix NULL dereference for NFSv4.0 data servers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSv4/flexfiles: fix NULL dereference for NFSv4.0 data servers\n\nflexfiles accepts NFSv4.0 data servers, but two NFSv4 code paths assume\nthe data server client has a session. Unlike NFSv4.1+, an NFSv4.0 client\nhas no session (clp-\u003ecl_session is NULL; it uses clp-\u003ecl_slot_tbl), so\nI/O to a v4.0 flexfiles DS oopses:\n\n  - nfs4_init_ds_session() dereferences clp-\u003ecl_session-\u003esession_state\n    while seeding the DS lease. It also only seeds cl_lease_time when\n    NFS4_SESSION_INITING is set; without a session that never happens, so\n    cl_lease_time stays 0 and nfs4_renew_state() busy-loops, requeuing\n    every 5 seconds. Seed the lease whenever there is no session and\n    return before touching session state.\n\n  - ff_layout_async_handle_error_v4() dereferences\n    clp-\u003ecl_session-\u003efc_slot_table on every DS I/O error. Fall back to the\n    v4.0 transport slot table (clp-\u003ecl_slot_tbl) when there is no session."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a7878ca140084ec267ede48fce64d7e60f6d873e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"336b6da10021c69a8f273bbacdf7432fdc89a06f"},{"version":"a7878ca140084ec267ede48fce64d7e60f6d873e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5527af72b0100c94287bfec901b6313eeac567ca"},{"version":"a7878ca140084ec267ede48fce64d7e60f6d873e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"163c16e01f53fc8eb8d0f3484ae6c382265ecbbd"},{"version":"a7878ca140084ec267ede48fce64d7e60f6d873e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"436a214514e24103159aea455147d58b44a8a585"},{"version":"a7878ca140084ec267ede48fce64d7e60f6d873e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b03ebbf8d5e8f6af4ecd6c65375232dd1ec32cc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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