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CVE-2026-89691 (GCVE-0-2026-89691)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:46 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:33
VLAI
Title
nfsd: clear opcnt on compound arg release to prevent OOB read
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: clear opcnt on compound arg release to prevent OOB read nfsd4_release_compoundargs() resets args->ops to the inline iops[8] array when the dynamically-allocated ops buffer is freed, but leaves args->opcnt at its original value (which can be up to 200 for NFSv4.1+ compounds). If rq_status_counter is stuck at an odd value (which can happen when nfsd_dispatch() hits an error path after setting it odd), the RPC status dumpit handler reads min(opcnt, 16) entries from args->ops[]. Since iops only has 8 elements and is the last field in struct nfsd4_compoundargs, reading indices 8-15 accesses adjacent slab memory and leaks it to userspace via netlink. Zero opcnt unconditionally in nfsd4_release_compoundargs() so stale compound metadata is never exposed through the status interface. [ cel: Remove the kvfree_rcu_mightsleep() sleep from the exposure window ]
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c , < 58bcdfb2b2e412088839ae740b1a95154dc0b8d0 (git)
Affected: bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c , < e879148867bd4c4cac42e063ffaffa187dddc6fe (git)
Affected: bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c , < c1a4f7b1848f95302df598217e1c7a1410c2d0c5 (git)
Affected: bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c , < ae4c38555e81563b8dc5eae55ffd70f0ea97aa5a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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