{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-89670", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-09-11T19:38:34.746Z", "datePublished": "2026-09-11T19:45:55.846Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:50:43.628Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:50:43.628Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: hold rcu across localio cmpxchg retry\n\nnfsd_file objects are freed via call_rcu (filecache.c:296), and\nnfsd_file_slab is created without SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU\n(KMEM_CACHE(nfsd_file, 0) at filecache.c:789), so the slab page\nbacking a freed nfsd_file becomes freely reclaimable once the RCU\ngrace period elapses.\n\nThe again: retry block in nfsd_open_local_fh() loads a pointer with\ncmpxchg and then calls nfsd_file_get(new) (which is\nrefcount_inc_not_zero) without holding rcu_read_lock. The sole caller\nnfs_open_local_fh() drops rcu_read_lock before invoking this helper,\nso no outer reader-side critical section covers the load.\n\n CPU 0 (nfsd_open_local_fh) CPU 1 (nfsd_file_put_local)\n ----- -----\n new = cmpxchg(pnf, NULL, ...)\n nf = xchg(pnf, NULL)\n nfsd_file_put(nf)\n last ref -> call_rcu()\n /* grace period elapses;\n slab page recycled */\n nfsd_file_get(new)\n refcount_inc_not_zero(&new->nf_ref)\n /* operates on recycled memory */\n\nA non-zero word at the nf_ref offset of the recycled object makes the\nrefcount bump appear to succeed, and the caller then dereferences\nnew->nf_net and new->nf_file out of freed memory.\n\nFix by taking rcu_read_lock() immediately before the cmpxchg and\nreleasing it on all three exits of the if (new) block: the goto-again\nretry, the lost-race cleanup path, and the install-succeeded path.\nnfsd_file_put() and nfsd_net_put() stay outside the RCU section so\nthey remain free to block." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - nfsd_open_local_fh is invoked only from the NFS client's LOCALIO path (nfs_generic_pg_pgios/nfs_commit_list → nfs_local_open_fh) after a same-host UUID handshake; a remote NFS peer never reaches this cmpxchg retry, so exploitation requires local access to a loopback NFS mount.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race: concurrent read/write/commit syscalls enter nfsd_open_local_fh while close/put_nfs_open_context runs nfsd_file_put_local on the same nfs_file_localio slot; the sequence is repeatable at will and can be widened by preemption.\nPR:L - Any unprivileged local user who can open files on a LOCALIO-enabled NFS mount can reach nfs_generic_pg_pgios → nfsd_open_local_fh with no capability check; starting nfsd or creating the mount is a deployment precondition, not a privilege the attacker must hold.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the use-after-free from their own threads via I/O and close syscalls; no separate victim action is required once the LOCALIO mount exists.\nS:U - The use-after-free corrupts nfsd_file slab objects in the host kernel, which is standard kernel memory corruption within one security authority, not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or sandbox boundary crossing.\nC:H - nfsd_file is freed via call_rcu without SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, so after the grace period nfsd_file_get and later nf_file/nf_net dereferences operate on recycled memory, enabling an arbitrary kernel read or disclosure of another exported file's contents.\nI:H - refcount_inc_not_zero writes into the recycled nfsd_file, and the stale pointer is then used for write_iter, corrupting another object's refcount and enabling a follow-on premature free and control-flow hijack.\nA:H - Use-after-free on the nfsd_file slab causes slab corruption, refcount warnings, and oops/panic when nf_file is taken from freed memory, which is a repeatable local kernel denial of service." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/nfsd/localio.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "e6f7e1487ab528a6c653bd0d42812ff2942846cd", "lessThan": "763c0bad872368304db718f79af7e93048885c67", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "e6f7e1487ab528a6c653bd0d42812ff2942846cd", "lessThan": "559570f91a7d4d199a72105e4980bef791f4cbf1", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "e6f7e1487ab528a6c653bd0d42812ff2942846cd", "lessThan": "58884694978a3d7d111edb433d7fd6a6c5af2f34", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "986a21ace186433e0397a59491646edad8c8d636", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "6.15.3", "lessThan": "6.16", "status": "affected", "versionType": "semver" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/nfsd/localio.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.16", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.16", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.50", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.2.4", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.16", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.50" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.16", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.4" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.16", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15.3" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/763c0bad872368304db718f79af7e93048885c67" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/559570f91a7d4d199a72105e4980bef791f4cbf1" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58884694978a3d7d111edb433d7fd6a6c5af2f34" } ], "title": "nfsd: hold rcu across localio cmpxchg retry", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }