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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89538" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:15.953Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:29.976Z" 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-2026-89538" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89538.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89538" title: "SUNRPC: Reject krb5 v2 wrap tokens with oversized ec field" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: Reject krb5 v2 wrap tokens with oversized ec field\n\ngss_krb5_unwrap_v2() sets buf-\u003elen to a logical\nlength, which can be much smaller than head[0].iov_len\n(the allocated receive-page capacity). It then calls\nxdr_buf_trim() with a trim length derived from the 16-bit\n\"extra count\" (ec) field in the Kerberos v2 token header.\n\nThe ec field is authenticated by the post-decrypt memcmp()\nagainst the encrypted header copy, so a randomly-mutated\nvalue is rejected. However, any peer holding a valid GSS\ncontext can legitimately encrypt a token whose ec exceeds\nthe plaintext length. Per RFC 4121, such a token is\nstructurally malformed.\n\nAlthough xdr_buf_trim() now clamps the buf-\u003elen subtraction\nto avoid unsigned underflow, the buffer is still left in a\nsemantically invalid state (zero length, inconsistent iov\nlengths) when ec is oversized.\n\nReject these tokens before calling xdr_buf_trim(), giving\ncallers a well-defined GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN error and\nkeeping the xdr_buf internally consistent. The wrapped blob\nbegins at a nonzero offset -- both callers pass len as\noffset + opaque_len -- so buf-\u003elen still counts the offset\nbytes that precede the blob. Compare the trim length\nagainst the remaining wrapped segment, buf-\u003elen - offset,\nrather than the whole buffer; comparing against buf-\u003elen\nalone leaves an offset-wide window in which an oversized ec\npasses the test and xdr_buf_trim() cuts into the bytes ahead\nof the blob." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac9efc29346b6942e71f0e24a3178a9121330fab"},{"version":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5746095b59f4d11f39f08751d36bbdfd1e5deac"},{"version":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9fc6d6e6db49ab55208d5dd1c424c1d0d9aa7296"},{"version":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4abb44a29bb515df6f49123848765c70fc9b5021"},{"version":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dfcd81ab45613d45996fbf483d4ef54b0ec90ab9"},{"version":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f9856af065b6158271687e9788407b9573fd16f"},{"version":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"880effc943ed82d6811f272ed3307c222b40f4d6"},{"version":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad484748eec0a66eac0f13ab53b3fbedb7333c91"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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