Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-89659

Linux Linux

NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke

CVSS 3.1
9.8Critical

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke A delegation stateid holds only a bare pointer to its owning nfs4_client and does not keep it alive. The client survives its stateids only because __destroy_client() drains cl_delegations and cl_revoked before free_client() runs. nfs4_laundromat() breaks that invariant: it unhashes an expired delegation from cl_delegations, drops deleg_lock, then revoke_delegation() relinks it onto cl_revoked under cl_lock. In that window the delegation is on neither list, so client_has_state() can report no remaining state. Every teardown path first requires cl_rpc_users to be zero, but the laundromat holds no such reference. A client whose recalled delegation has just timed out can therefore reach free_client() while revoke_delegation() is still about to dereference cl_lock, a use-after-free. Pin the client with cl_rpc_users across the revoke so teardown blocks until it completes, then reap the delegation from cl_revoked. A client already expiring reaps its own, so skip it and leave the delegation on del_recall_lru.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.8Critical 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 3.10 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 ≤ v < 94f0c73797c30a35812ffb32d11b8737d245c405 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 ≤ v < 0dd276b1324a5e08e83c6f675919946c9f0d61c9 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 ≤ v < 2f9a200c0ea5b214609b8cea2b6666458bcb54cd CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 ≤ v < 2a9d637c2a8fd8ac29ad9b29f28d122ef75c1a56 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 ≤ v < 4683ca76b3b7e5808338491c6eb3c20e6b4894d5 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 ≤ v < 3c0a53ee0b442348d8d2286d6960d3f07bb3a3d3 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-09-11
Last updated
2026-10-30
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.47%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
41.4%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

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