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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89540" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:17.440Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:31.930Z" 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-2026-89540" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89540.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89540" title: "sunrpc: init gssp_lock before publishing proc entry" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsunrpc: init gssp_lock before publishing proc entry\n\ncreate_use_gss_proxy_proc_entry() publishes /proc/net/rpc/use-gss-proxy\nvia proc_create_data() before init_gssp_clnt() runs mutex_init() on\nsn-\u003egssp_lock. Once the dentry is linked under proc_subdir_lock it is\nimmediately reachable from userspace, so a write that lands in the\nwindow drives set_gssp_clnt() into mutex_lock() on a zero-initialized\nstruct mutex.\n\n create_use_gss_proxy_proc_entry(net)\n proc_create_data(\"use-gss-proxy\", ...) /* dentry live */\n init_gssp_clnt(sn)\n mutex_init(&sn-\u003egssp_lock) /* too late */\n\n write_gssp()\n set_gssp_clnt(net)\n mutex_lock(&sn-\u003egssp_lock) /* uninitialized */\n gssp_rpc_create(...)\n sn-\u003egssp_clnt = clnt\n mutex_unlock(&sn-\u003egssp_lock)\n\nThe window spans only the two statements between proc_create_data()\nreturning and init_gssp_clnt(), so a writer reaches it only if the\nregistering thread is preempted there while another task is already\nopening the freshly published file. register_pernet_subsys() runs in\npreemptible context under pernet_ops_rwsem, so that preemption is\npossible, and the window widens on auth_rpcgss module load, when the\nproc entry is created for every live net namespace whose tasks are\nalready running. A writer that wins the race locks a zero-filled\nstruct mutex. On CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES the missing magic value trips a\n\"lock used without init\" splat; on a production kernel the fast path\nacquires the lock via CMPXCHG(owner, 0, current). In the latter case\na second writer that arrives before init_gssp_clnt() re-zeroes owner\ncan enter set_gssp_clnt() concurrently, shut down the first writer's\nclnt while it is still in use, and leak the loser's clnt.\n\nFix by initializing sn-\u003egssp_lock in sunrpc_init_net() so its lifetime\nmatches the sunrpc_net it lives in. sn-\u003egssp_clnt is already NULL from\nthe kzalloc that backs net_generic storage, so the lazy helper is no\nlonger needed; drop init_gssp_clnt(), its prototype, and the call from\ncreate_use_gss_proxy_proc_entry(). sunrpc.ko is a build-time\ndependency of auth_rpcgss.ko, so sunrpc_init_net() has always run on\nevery netns before any auth_gss pernet init can publish the proc\nentry." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"159a4fab7170badd6c4a553aef81cac079d6f4ee"},{"version":"030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3526ae3351968f6726bcbe25d8d09973ad79109"},{"version":"030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f5bcdc8da15077ebe846c2756a5a17741021410"},{"version":"030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89c8e0733e8c46b7973503f15b1b31a8587d8030"},{"version":"030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f15b87521168c2a92cb1931f532cba422f856f01"},{"version":"030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"edeefb111d6181a4aa278f415b005efe284b9489"},{"version":"030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f019571928b269feebcff59926ec13294215e0e"},{"version":"030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ce1ed6159731a41fdd0b03eedbed4e147036a5a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"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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