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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89542" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:18.931Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:33.941Z" 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-2026-89542" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89542.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89542" title: "SUNRPC: harden gss_krb5_unwrap_v2 against short tokens" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: harden gss_krb5_unwrap_v2 against short tokens\n\ngss_krb5_unwrap_v2() reads the EC and RRC header fields at ptr+4 and\nptr+6 before validating that the token is at least GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN\n(16) bytes long, and its rotate_left() helper passes buf-\u003elen - base\nto xdr_buf_subsegment() without verifying that base \u003c= buf-\u003elen. When\na caller hands in a sub-16-byte token, or a token whose declared len\nleaves base past the end of the buffer, three distinct failures follow:\n\n gss_krb5_unwrap_v2(offset, len, buf)\n ptr = buf-\u003ehead[0].iov_base + offset\n ec = *(ptr + 4) /* OOB read on short head */\n rrc = *(ptr + 6) /* OOB read on short head */\n rotate_left(offset + 16, buf, rrc)\n xdr_buf_subsegment(buf, &subbuf,\n base, buf-\u003elen - base) /* u32 wrap when base \u003e len */\n _rotate_left(&subbuf, shift)\n shift %= buf-\u003elen /* divide-by-zero when base == len */\n\nAfter decryption, the cleanup arithmetic has the same shape:\n\n movelen = min_t(unsigned int, buf-\u003ehead[0].iov_len, len);\n movelen -= offset + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip;\n BUG_ON(offset + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip + movelen \u003e\n buf-\u003ehead[0].iov_len);\n\nThe BUG_ON re-adds the value just subtracted, so it reduces to\nmin(A, B) \u003e A and is permanently false; it cannot catch the unsigned\nunderflow of movelen, which then drives a ~UINT_MAX-byte memmove().\n\nAdd four defense-in-depth guards inside the unwrap core so it is safe\nregardless of what its callers validate:\n\n - reject tokens with len - offset \u003c GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN before\n touching ptr+4/ptr+6;\n - bail from rotate_left() when buf-\u003elen \u003c= base, covering both the\n underflow and zero-length cases;\n - return early from _rotate_left() when buf-\u003elen is zero, so the\n shift %= buf-\u003elen modulo cannot fault;\n - replace the dead BUG_ON with a live check that returns\n GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN before the movelen subtraction." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"299d281c7225ded15b28cb861a98d818d82787fc"},{"version":"de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84ddbc8d084c0251d534f14f5d1a7da05be56404"},{"version":"de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"075d7cfc4df8c54cb202ba8b28420370c03ba9b6"},{"version":"de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f2591660e0eb263c9415bf0d0bb1b111e62df7a4"},{"version":"de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dddcb0f4b7e27fac16a78ea9a1c8ec2e8a241087"},{"version":"de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"806584a4b67a7233870c33e5b8f872e76dd02988"},{"version":"de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7894e10572d53eb10109b8d07459cc8d3435811"},{"version":"de9c17eb4a912c9028f7b470eb80815144883b26","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6959297aaa9572783d620a226d73c3fb94494888"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.35","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"},{"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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