CVE-2026-89700

nfsd: validate sockaddr length per family in listener_set

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: validate sockaddr length per family in listener_set

nfsd_sock_nl_policy declares NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR as a bare NLA_BINARY attribute with no minimum length. A CAP_NET_ADMIN caller can send a 16-byte NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR with sa_family=AF_INET6, causing a 12-byte OOB read across three consumers (rpc_cmp_addr_port, svc_find_listener, kernel_bind).

nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() also parsed and validated each listener entry inline in two separate loops, interleaved with mutating the running listener configuration. The validation was duplicated, used an open-coded "nla_len < sizeof(struct sockaddr)" check that was too short for AF_INET6, and handled a malformed entry inconsistently depending on which loop noticed it.

Add an nfsd_nl_validate_listeners() helper that walks the entire list once and confirms each entry parses, carries both an address and a transport name, and is long enough for its address family (sizeof(struct sockaddr_in) for AF_INET, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6) for AF_INET6, -EAFNOSUPPORT otherwise). Call it before taking nfsd_mutex or creating the serv, so a malformed request fails cleanly with no side effects.

Since every entry is known valid by the time the two existing loops run, drop the redundant presence and per-family length checks from both, leaving only the nla_parse_nested() call needed to extract the data.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 16a471177496c8e04a9793812c187a2c1a2192fa to before bf85a0f1e45258f90ceeec14772b5769697dfd75Affected
  • 16a471177496c8e04a9793812c187a2c1a2192fa to before 2aca70c18c5f5d06004122861fb151d5fcc57fafAffected
  • 16a471177496c8e04a9793812c187a2c1a2192fa to before 22d0e4752ca88fd84196d22ebeedc905e6540440Affected
  • 16a471177496c8e04a9793812c187a2c1a2192fa to before bdcc85c2b05a9378d8bd2d65f9fc41440a3cf464Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.10Affected
  • before 6.10Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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