CVE-2026-23053 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Linux
Severity
5.3MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 4
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFS: Fix a deadlock involving nfs_release_folio()
Wang Zhaolong reports a deadlock involving NFSv4.1 state recovery
waiting on kthreadd, which is attempting to reclaim memory by calling
nfs_release_folio(). The latter cannot make progress due to state
recovery being needed.
It seems that the only safe thing to do here is to kick off a writeback
of the folio, without waiting for completion, or else kicking off an
asynchronous …
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux96780ca55e3cbf4f150fd5a833a61492c9947b5b — a4810f8beb0122f032f10735f98d257aa6064f4c+4
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2026-23053: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Fix a deadlock involving nfs_release_folio() Wang Zhaolong reports a deadlock↗2026-02-04
GHSA▶
GHSA-89rw-2v88-2798: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFS: Fix a deadlock involving nfs_release_folio()
Wang Zhaolong reports a deadlo↗2026-02-04