Remote NFS interruption via async-copy counter underflow
Published Nov 19, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Resource exhaustion in Linux 6.10.14 and later before 6.11, and 6.11.3 through 6.11.6, allows remote attackers to interrupt NFS service. The nfsd4_copy() error path invokes cleanup_async_copy() after pending_async_copies was already decremented, driving the counter below zero and defeating the async-copy limit. An NFSv4.2 client permitted by an export can exceed sp_nrthreads with concurrent asynchronous COPY requests, causing unbounded copy threads and memory exhaustion or a kernel panic when panic_on_warn is enabled.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in Linux 6.10.14 and later before 6.11, and 6.11.3 through 6.11.6, allows remote attackers to interrupt NFS service. The nfsd4_copy() error path invokes cleanup_async_copy() after pending_async_copies was already decremented, driving the counter below zero and defeating the async-copy limit. An NFSv4.2 client permitted by an export can exceed sp_nrthreads with concurrent asynchronous COPY requests, causing unbounded copy threads and memory exhaustion or a kernel panic when panic_on_warn is enabled.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-53073
- Published
- Nov 19, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Nov 19, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=43e46ee5efc03990b223f7aa8b77aa9c3d3acfdf <9467c49437e948c541569007cd412d577942e635
- Affected versionversion=6.10.14 <6.11
- Affected versionversion=6.11.3 <6.11.7
- Affected versionversion=6a488ad7745b8f64625c6d3a24ce7e448e83f11b <1421883aa30c5d26bc3370e2d19cb350f0d5ca28
- Affected versionversion=7ea9260874b779637aff6d24c344b8ef4ac862a0 <949ee5d44d1fd95119b29b3382a933cdc617bf9e
- Affected versionversion=9e52ff544e0bfa09ee339fd7b0937ee3c080c24e <ed98d26021db0fe62c327aa9f5e57a90bff3fa94
- Affected versionversion=aadc3bbea163b6caaaebfdd2b6c4667fbc726752 <8286f8b622990194207df9ab852e0f87c60d35e9
- Affected versionversion=ae267989b7b7933dfedcd26468d0a88fc3a9da9e <fb79d68a36e21960341ccab07d1ac06d93830321
- Affected versionversion=b4e21431a0db4854b5023cd5af001be557e6c3db
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