An issue was discovered in fs/nfs/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. If an application sets the O_DIRECTORY flag, and tries to open a regular file, nfs_atomic_open() performs a regular lookup. If a regular file is found, ENOTDIR should occur, but the server instead returns uninitialized data in the file descriptor.
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.5
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/67d6a536-9027-1928-99b6-af512a36cd1a@huawei.com/T/
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon