Answer in brief
CVE-2026-89690 records a High severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in nfsd: defer vfree of compound ops to fix rpc_status UAF. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 7.8. 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
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c <48f72aff24f7a7329209dc6cbc27c869f3e3595c || >=bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c <6703199f4d7e7f37d6a726a849eb358e8fae72fb || >=bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c <19413ccc45070a7270b9e25c2a258daf7f91de42 || >=bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c <fca26a3fc19ed02278aa2a150af82d43db0302cb | 48f72aff24f7a7329209dc6cbc27c869f3e3595c, 6703199f4d7e7f37d6a726a849eb358e8fae72fb, 19413ccc45070a7270b9e25c2a258daf7f91de42, fca26a3fc19ed02278aa2a150af82d43db0302cb |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.7 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 11, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 19, 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: nfsd: defer vfree of compound ops to fix rpc_status UAF The rpc_status netlink dumpit walks every in-flight svc_rqst under rcu_read_lock and, for NFSv4 requests, reads opnums out of args->ops[]. But args->ops is a separate vmalloc buffer freed synchronously by vfree() in nfsd4_release_compoundargs() at the end of every compound. The dumpit's rcu_read_lock pins the svc_rqst struct itself (freed via kfree_rcu), but nothing defers the vfree of the ops buffer across the RCU grace period. A concurrent compound completion can therefore free the buffer while the dumpit is reading it — a use-after-free on vmalloc memory. The trailing seqcount recheck (smp_load_acquire of rq_status_counter) cannot undo a load that already retired against freed memory. Fix by replacing vfree(args->ops) with kvfree_rcu_mightsleep(), which defers the free until after an RCU grace period. This makes the existing rcu_read_lock in the dumpit sufficient to protect the read. The tradeoff is that completed compound ops buffers (up to 200 * sizeof(struct nfsd4_op)) persist in memory slightly longer, across one grace period, before being reclaimed.
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