CVE-2010-2521: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c in the XDR implementation in the NFS server in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NFSv4 compound WRITE request, related to the read_buf and nfsd4_decode_compound functions.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.34; version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; …

Published 2010-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.