CVE-2017-9059

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    CVE-2017-9059

    Published: 18 May 2017Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The NFSv4 implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by leveraging improper channel callback shutdown when unmounting an NFSv4 filesystem, aka a "module reference and kernel daemon" leak.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98551, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451386, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c70422f760c120480fee4de6c38804c72aa26bc1, https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg63334.html, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c70422f760c120480fee4de6c38804c72aa26bc1

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    Availability
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