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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 24, 2024· Updated Jan 5, 2026

NFSD: Prevent a potential integer overflow

CVE-2024-53146

Description

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

NFSD: Prevent a potential integer overflow

If the tag length is >= U32_MAX - 3 then the "length + 4" addition can result in an integer overflow. Address this by splitting the decoding into several steps so that decode_cb_compound4res() does not have to perform arithmetic on the unsafe length value.

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