Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Moderate 2026-09-11T00:00:00 kernel: nfsd: fix dentry ref leak on V4ROOT export filehandle lookup 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CWE-911

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix dentry ref leak on V4ROOT export filehandle lookup nfsd_set_fh_dentry() leaks the dentry reference from exportfs_decode_fh_raw() when the NFS3_FHSIZE or NFS_FHSIZE switch cases detect NFSEXP_V4ROOT and goto out. The out: label calls exp_put() but never dput(dentry), and fhp->fh_dentry was never assigned so fh_put() cannot compensate. A crafted NFSv3 filehandle targeting a V4ROOT export's fsid triggers the leak on every request.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's nfsd (NFS daemon). A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted NFSv3 filehandle targeting a V4ROOT export's file system identifier (fsid). This action triggers a dentry reference leak, which can lead to resource exhaustion and ultimately result in a Denial of Service (DoS) on the affected system.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Out of support scope kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Not affected openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Not affected openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89683 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89683 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-89683.mbox