CVE-2026-89674
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: fix XDR length calculation in nfsd4ffencode_layoutget
The XDR buffer size calculation in nfsd4ffencode_layoutget() has
multiple errors that can result in either an out-of-bounds write or
leaking uninitialized kernel memory to the client:
- fh_len doesn't account for XDR padding on the file handle data
- uid and gid lengths use "8 + len" but xdrencodeopaque() actually
writes "4 + xdralignsize(len)" bytes
- dslen omits the flags and statscollect_hint fields (8 bytes),
while len's header constant overestimates by 8 bytes -- these
partially cancel but leave a net mismatch
The worst case occurs with short strings (e.g. uid=0, gid=0 with an
odd-sized file handle), where the function writes up to 5 bytes past
the reserved XDR buffer. Conversely, when string lengths happen to be
4-byte aligned, the reservation is too large and stale buffer content
is sent to the client.
Fix this by breaking out every encoded field explicitly in the ds_len
calculation, using xdralignsize() for all variable-length opaque
fields, and correcting the header constants.
Package Versions Affected
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0380129b1373c437eb35401a174671c8888f4b80, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29e4478e2ed5a227e8f0c33cacb91bf227cedd47, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a7fd224df0fbb42167eb1b77be45d72fe0b1098, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65a72b721943618eeb3a41c8b36e915591f3f83f, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bee826c00ac900473f91306f1f3e5a5a81fd4a74, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c81cef6a805dec266c10fc4f83c93d6fcf1a2b43, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7d9d23ecd9172f05b09bb678ff22db8e361c428, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9868174af49d207fbaf0c5e055d088a983684af, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89674.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89674, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git