# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89539"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:16.699Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:46.957Z"
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-2026-89539"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89539.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89539"
title: "SUNRPC: reject duplicate CREDS_VALUE options"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: reject duplicate CREDS_VALUE options\n\ngssx_dec_option_array() walks the wire-supplied option array and, for\nevery entry whose name matches CREDS_VALUE, calls\ngssx_dec_linux_creds() on the same struct svc_cred. That helper\nunconditionally installs a fresh groups_alloc() result into\ncreds-\u003ecr_group_info without releasing whatever pointer was already\nthere:\n\n    for (i = 0; i \u003c count; i++) {\n        ... decode name ...\n        if (length == sizeof(CREDS_VALUE) &&\n            memcmp(p, CREDS_VALUE, sizeof(CREDS_VALUE)) == 0) {\n            err = gssx_dec_linux_creds(xdr, creds);\n            ...\n        }\n    }\n\nA reply that carries two CREDS_VALUE entries therefore overwrites\ncr_group_info on the second iteration and orphans the group_info\nallocated by the first call. The earlier free_creds path only\nreleases the last cr_group_info via free_svc_cred(), so the first\nallocation's refcount stays at one and its kvmalloc-backed storage\nis leaked. No in-tree caller of gssp_accept_sec_context_upcall()\nexpects more than one CREDS_VALUE per reply.\n\nFix by tracking whether a CREDS_VALUE option has already been\ndecoded and returning -EINVAL on any subsequent match, so the\nfree_creds path releases the single group_info that was installed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1d658336b05f8697d6445834f8867f8ad5e4f735","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b5ebb4f91a6152a0f7b1253f701197e5710d4da"},{"version":"1d658336b05f8697d6445834f8867f8ad5e4f735","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f615b884310bf82d0014e3b5a92eb9aa88146685"},{"version":"1d658336b05f8697d6445834f8867f8ad5e4f735","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a1d0501cbb962beba23377035d667bf3c1726ee"},{"version":"1d658336b05f8697d6445834f8867f8ad5e4f735","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d94f046b23de0f77849ea69133063c949297e30"},{"version":"1d658336b05f8697d6445834f8867f8ad5e4f735","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e4ce62385c1b8a887c5370af058ac7b52a8eaf9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"version":"6.6.160","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"}]

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