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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-47316

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 5/21/2024 11:15:18 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

nfsd: fix NULL dereference in nfs3svc_encode_getaclres

In error cases the dentry may be NULL.

Before 20798dfe249a, the encoder also checked dentry and
d_really_is_positive(dentry), but that looks like overkill to me--zero
status should be enough to guarantee a positive dentry.

This isn't the first time we've seen an error-case NULL dereference
hidden in the initialization of a local variable in an xdr encoder.  But
I went back through the other recent rewrites and didn't spot any
similar bugs.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/650e6f383a6eb40f7c0a010982a74ab4b6893870 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab1016d39cc052064e32f25ad18ef8767a0ee3b8 [No types assigned]