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CVE-2023-53680

high

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Avoid calling OPDESC() with ops->opnum == OP_ILLEGAL OPDESC() simply indexes into n…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Avoid calling OPDESC() with ops->opnum == OP_ILLEGAL OPDESC() simply indexes into nfsd4_ops[] by the op's operation number, without range checking that value. It assumes callers are careful to avoid calling it with an out-of-bounds opnum value. nfsd4_decode_compound() is not so careful, and can invoke OPDESC() with opnum set to OP_ILLEGAL, which is 10044 -- well beyond the end of nfsd4_ops[].

CVSS
7.8
7.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-10-07 16:15
Modified: 2026-10-28 20:10
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 10 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 20:34 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥4.14 <5.10.220, ≥5.11 <5.15.107, ≥5.16 <6.1.24, ≥6.2 <6.2.11, 6.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50827896c365e0f6c8b55ed56d444dafd87c92c5
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/804d8e0a6e54427268790472781e03bc243f4ee3
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a64160124d5a078be0c380b1e8a0bad2d040d3a1
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f352c41fa718482979e7e6b71b4da2b718e381cc
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffcbcf087581ae68ddc0a21460f7ecd4315bdd0e

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 20:34 UTC · record ↗

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