Answer in brief
CVE-2026-89537 records a Critical severity (CVSS 9.1) vulnerability in SUNRPC: Reject short RFC 4121 MIC tokens in gss_krb5_verify_mic_v2. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.
CVSS is 9.1. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <7a946b2e7207f968902f2147ab9b30726f82f7ab || >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <b94f6719dcd9f7a609bc5f459f85795900e77d25 | 7a946b2e7207f968902f2147ab9b30726f82f7ab, b94f6719dcd9f7a609bc5f459f85795900e77d25 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 2.6.35 | Not reported |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <996dd15f60121bdd7896b4554458f8806d608063 || >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <7a946b2e7207f968902f2147ab9b30726f82f7ab || >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <b94f6719dcd9f7a609bc5f459f85795900e77d25 | 996dd15f60121bdd7896b4554458f8806d608063, 7a946b2e7207f968902f2147ab9b30726f82f7ab, b94f6719dcd9f7a609bc5f459f85795900e77d25 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <b2e9e10f5a536befcdce64d3e6946dff42fb823e || >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <997577c52487181226775db3755079a3ba1d52b9 || >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <996dd15f60121bdd7896b4554458f8806d608063 || >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <7a946b2e7207f968902f2147ab9b30726f82f7ab || >=de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26 <b94f6719dcd9f7a609bc5f459f85795900e77d25 | b2e9e10f5a536befcdce64d3e6946dff42fb823e, 997577c52487181226775db3755079a3ba1d52b9, 996dd15f60121bdd7896b4554458f8806d608063, 7a946b2e7207f968902f2147ab9b30726f82f7ab, b94f6719dcd9f7a609bc5f459f85795900e77d25 |
Published upstream
Sep 11, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 21, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 11, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: Reject short RFC 4121 MIC tokens in gss_krb5_verify_mic_v2 gss_krb5_verify_mic_v2() reads the token ID at ptr[0..1], the flags byte at ptr[2], and padding at ptr[3..7], then passes ptr + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN and cksum_len to gss_krb5_mic_build_sg(). None of these accesses check read_token->len first. The minimum safe token size is GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN (16) plus ctx->krb5e->cksum_len (12-24, depending on the enctype). All callers accept shorter tokens from the wire: - gss_unwrap_resp_integ() enforces only an upper bound (offset + len <= rcv_buf->len) before allocating mic.data = kmalloc(len) and passing it to gss_verify_mic(). A malicious NFS server can therefore supply a short checksum opaque, producing a small slab allocation that the Kerberos MIC verifier reads past. - gss_validate() enforces only len <= RPC_MAX_AUTH_SIZE (400) before passing the wire-supplied length to gss_validate_seqno_mic(), which constructs a mic xdr_netobj and calls gss_verify_mic(). - svcauth_gss_verify_header() enforces only checksum.len >= XDR_UNIT (4 bytes) before dispatching to gss_verify_mic(). - svcauth_gss_unwrap_integ() checks only that the checksum fits in gsd->gsd_scratch. Add a length guard at the top of gss_krb5_verify_mic_v2(), before any ptr[] access or scatterlist construction. Well-formed MIC tokens from gss_krb5_get_mic_v2() already have exactly GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + cksum_len bytes, so valid traffic is unaffected.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.