CVE-2026-31403

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd

The /proc/fs/nfs/exports proc entry is created at module init and persists for the module’s lifetime. exports_proc_open() captures the caller’s current network namespace and stores its svc_export_cache in seq->private, but takes no reference on the namespace. If the namespace is subsequently torn down (e.g. container destruction after the opener does setns() to a different namespace), nfsd_net_exit() calls nfsd_export_shutdown() which frees the cache. Subsequent reads on the still-open fd dereference the freed cache_detail, walking a freed hash table.

Hold a reference on the struct net for the lifetime of the open file descriptor. This prevents nfsd_net_exit() from running – and thus prevents nfsd_export_shutdown() from freeing the cache – while any exports fd is open. cache_detail already stores its net pointer (cd->net, set by cache_create_net()), so exports_release() can retrieve it without additional per-file storage.

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.