Security Advisory

CVE-2026-63800

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-07-19 12:02:06
Last updated 2026-07-20 13:40:10
Assigner Linux
CVSS score 9.8
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pNFS: Fix use-after-free in pnfs_update_layout() When hitting the NFS_LAYOUT_RETURN branch in pnfs_update_layout(), the code calls pnfs_prepare_to_retry_layoutget(lo). If it succeeds, pnfs_put_layout_hdr(lo) is called before trace_pnfs_update_layout(), which still references 'lo'. This results in a use-after-free when the tracepoint accesses lo's fields. Fix this by moving the tracepoint call before pnfs_put_layout_hdr(lo).