In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: return -EINVAL when namelen is 0
When we have a corrupted main.sqlite in /var/lib/nfs/nfsdcld/, it may
result in namelen being 0, which will cause memdup_user() to return
ZERO_SIZE_PTR.
When we access the name.data that has been assigned the value of
ZERO_SIZE_PTR in nfs4_client_to_reclaim(), null pointer dereference is
triggered.
[ T1205] ==================================================================
[ T1205] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in nfs4_client_to_reclaim+0xe9/0x260
[ T1205] Read of size 1 at addr 0000000000000010 by task nfsdcld/1205
[ T1205]
[ T1205] CPU: 11 PID: 1205 Comm: nfsdcld Not tainted 5.10.0-00003-g2c1423731b8d #406
[ T1205] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20190727_073836-buildvm-ppc64le-16.ppc.fedoraproject.org-3.fc31 04/01/2014
[ T1205] Call Trace:
[ T1205] dump_stack+0x9a/0xd0
[ T1205] ? nfs4_client_to_reclaim+0xe9/0x260
[ T1205] __kasan_report.cold+0x34/0x84
[ T1205] ? nfs4_client_to_reclaim+0xe9/0x260
[ T1205] kasan_report+0x3a/0x50
[ T1205] nfs4_client_to_reclaim+0xe9/0x260
[ T1205] ? nfsd4_release_lockowner+0x410/0x410
[ T1205] cld_pipe_downcall+0x5ca/0x760
[ T1205] ? nfsd4_cld_tracking_exit+0x1d0/0x1d0
[ T1205] ? down_write_killable_nested+0x170/0x170
[ T1205] ? avc_policy_seqno+0x28/0x40
[ T1205] ? selinux_file_permission+0x1b4/0x1e0
[ T1205] rpc_pipe_write+0x84/0xb0
[ T1205] vfs_write+0x143/0x520
[ T1205] ksys_write+0xc9/0x170
[ T1205] ? __ia32_sys_read+0x50/0x50
[ T1205] ? ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64+0xfe/0x110
[ T1205] ? ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64+0xa2/0x110
[ T1205] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
[ T1205] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
[ T1205] RIP: 0033:0x7fdbdb761bc7
[ T1205] Code: 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 514
[ T1205] RSP: 002b:00007fff8c4b7248 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
[ T1205] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000042b RCX: 00007fdbdb761bc7
[ T1205] RDX: 000000000000042b RSI: 00007fff8c4b75f0 RDI: 0000000000000008
[ T1205] RBP: 00007fdbdb761bb0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
[ T1205] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000042b
[ T1205] R13: 0000000000000008 R14: 00007fff8c4b75f0 R15: 0000000000000000
[ T1205] ==================================================================
Fix it by checking namelen.
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (6.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 1.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it