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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Nov 21, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 21, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

Revert "NFSD: Remove the cap on number of operations per NFSv4 COMPOUND"

I've found that pynfs COMP6 now leaves the connection or lease in a
strange state, which causes CLOSE9 to hang indefinitely. I've dug
into it a little, but I haven't been able to root-cause it yet.
However, I bisected to commit 48aab1606fa8 ("NFSD: Remove the cap on
number of operations per NFSv4 COMPOUND").

Tianshuo Han also reports a potential vulnerability when decoding
an NFSv4 COMPOUND. An attacker can place an arbitrarily large op
count in the COMPOUND header, which results in:

[ 51.410584] nfsd: vmalloc error: size 1209533382144, exceeds total
pages, mode:0xdc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO),
nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0

when NFSD attempts to allocate the COMPOUND op array.

Let's restore the operation-per-COMPOUND limit, but increased to 200
for now.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 21, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 21, 2025
Last updated Nov 21, 2025

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

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Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2025-40210

GHSA ID

GHSA-7q3v-wc68-53r6

Source code

No known source code

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