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CVE-2021-47168

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2024-03-25 Modified: 2026-08-04

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: fix an incorrect limit in filelayout_decode_layout() The "sizeof(struct nfs_fh)" is two bytes too large and could lead to memory corruption. It should be NFS_MAXFHSIZE because that's the size of the ->data[] buffer. I reversed the size of the arguments to put the variable on the left.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-787

References