CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31400
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-07-24
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sunrpc: fix cache_request leak in cache_release
When a reader's file descriptor is closed while in the middle of reading
a cache_request (rp->offset != 0), cache_release() decrements the
request's readers count but never checks whether it should free the
request.
In cache_read(), when readers drops to 0 and CACHE_PENDING is clear, the
cache_request is removed from the queue and freed along with its buffer
and cache_head reference. cache_release() lacks this cleanup.
The only other path that frees requests with readers == 0 is
cache_dequeue(), but it runs only when CACHE_PENDING transitions from
set to clear. If that transition already happened while readers was
still non-zero, cache_dequeue() will have skipped the request, and no
subsequent call will clean it up.
Add the same cleanup logic from cache_read() to cache_release(): after
decrementing readers, check if it reached 0 with CACHE_PENDING clear,
and if so, dequeue and free the cache_request.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.12.1 < 5.10.253)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.203)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.167)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.10)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ad31b3a43b72aec3a3d83605891e1397d0d065 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dfedb293943e491379c9302b428e6f920a73d12 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/301670dcd098c1fe5c2fe90fb3c7a8f4814d2351 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/373457de14281c1fc7cace6fc4c8a267fc176673 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41f6ba6c98a618043d2cd71030bf9a752dfab8b2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bcd5e318876ac638c8ceade7a648e76ac8c48e1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be5c35960e5ead70862736161836e2d1bc7352dc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f18c1f2a88ca91357916997cdb0f7adaf14fc497 Patch