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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89537"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:15.216Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:45.860Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89537"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89537.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89537"
title: "SUNRPC: Reject short RFC 4121 MIC tokens in gss_krb5_verify_mic_v2"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: Reject short RFC 4121 MIC tokens in gss_krb5_verify_mic_v2\n\ngss_krb5_verify_mic_v2() reads the token ID at ptr[0..1], the flags\nbyte at ptr[2], and padding at ptr[3..7], then passes\nptr + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN and cksum_len to gss_krb5_mic_build_sg().\nNone of these accesses check read_token-\u003elen first.\n\nThe minimum safe token size is GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN (16) plus\nctx-\u003ekrb5e-\u003ecksum_len (12-24, depending on the enctype).  All callers\naccept shorter tokens from the wire:\n\n - gss_unwrap_resp_integ() enforces only an upper bound\n   (offset + len \u003c= rcv_buf-\u003elen) before allocating\n   mic.data = kmalloc(len) and passing it to gss_verify_mic().\n   A malicious NFS server can therefore supply a short checksum\n   opaque, producing a small slab allocation that the Kerberos MIC\n   verifier reads past.\n\n - gss_validate() enforces only len \u003c= RPC_MAX_AUTH_SIZE (400)\n   before passing the wire-supplied length to\n   gss_validate_seqno_mic(), which constructs a mic xdr_netobj\n   and calls gss_verify_mic().\n\n - svcauth_gss_verify_header() enforces only\n   checksum.len \u003e= XDR_UNIT (4 bytes) before dispatching to\n   gss_verify_mic().\n\n - svcauth_gss_unwrap_integ() checks only that the checksum fits\n   in gsd-\u003egsd_scratch.\n\nAdd a length guard at the top of gss_krb5_verify_mic_v2(), before any\nptr[] access or scatterlist construction.  Well-formed MIC tokens from\ngss_krb5_get_mic_v2() already have exactly GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN +\ncksum_len bytes, so valid traffic is unaffected."
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