CVE-2026-53244

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VFS: fix possible failure to unlock in nfsd4createfile atomiccreate in fs/namei.c drops the reference to the dentry when it returns an error. This behaviour was imported into dentrycreate so that it will drop the reference if an...

CVE-2026-53244

CVE-2026-53244 concerns the Linux kernel NFSD component. When exporting a filesystem with the atomic_create hook, an error from atomic_create() could cause nfsd4_create_file() to fail unlocking the parent directory, risking resource exhaustion and potential DoS. The root cause is that dentry hand...