In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
Jul 16, 2024
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated May 12, 2026
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jul 16, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jul 16, 2024
Last updated
May 12, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: Fix ia_size underflow
iattr::ia_size is a loff_t, which is a signed 64-bit type. NFSv3 and
NFSv4 both define file size as an unsigned 64-bit type. Thus there
is a range of valid file size values an NFS client can send that is
already larger than Linux can handle.
Currently decode_fattr4() dumps a full u64 value into ia_size. If
that value happens to be larger than S64_MAX, then ia_size
underflows. I'm about to fix up the NFSv3 behavior as well, so let's
catch the underflow in the common code path: nfsd_setattr().
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