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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89551" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:25.327Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:44.059Z" 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-2026-89551" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89551.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89551" title: "SUNRPC: xdr_buf_trim: clamp buf-\u003elen to avoid underflow" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: xdr_buf_trim: clamp buf-\u003elen to avoid underflow\n\nxdr_buf_trim() trims `len` bytes from the tail of an xdr_buf by\nwalking the tail, pages, and head iovecs. Each per-section step\nuses min_t() so it never removes more bytes than that section\nholds, but the final accounting at the fix_len label subtracts the\ntotal bytes actually consumed from buf-\u003elen without any clamp:\n\n fix_len:\n buf-\u003elen -= (len - trim);\n\nWhen the caller has set buf-\u003elen to a value smaller than the sum\nof the iov_lens, (len - trim) can exceed buf-\u003elen and the unsigned\nsubtraction wraps to near UINT_MAX. gss_krb5_unwrap_v2() reaches\nxdr_buf_trim() in exactly that state:\n\n buf-\u003ehead[0].iov_len -= GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip;\n buf-\u003elen = len - (GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip);\n xdr_buf_trim(buf, ec + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + tailskip);\n\nbuf-\u003elen is a small wire-derived value while the iov_lens are at\npage scale, so the per-section loops legitimately consume far more\nbytes than buf-\u003elen records. The wrapped buf-\u003elen then propagates\nas the authoritative stream bound into every downstream XDR\ndecoder.\n\nFix by clamping the decrement so buf-\u003elen bottoms out at zero:\n\n buf-\u003elen -= min_t(unsigned int, buf-\u003elen, len - trim);\n\nOn the normal path where the iov_lens sum to buf-\u003elen, (len - trim)\nis always \u003c= buf-\u003elen and the result is identical to before. No\ncallers change behavior outside the underflow case." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4c190e2f913f038c9c91ee63b59cd037260ba353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3d77bcd974b8625d16bddf448cb3a1b5e37049c"},{"version":"4c190e2f913f038c9c91ee63b59cd037260ba353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa16bbe987b47e771e52eeb1b4540f18d92496ac"},{"version":"4c190e2f913f038c9c91ee63b59cd037260ba353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a924ac4c78afab71bf82641afa3b62e0c4a8b55e"},{"version":"4c190e2f913f038c9c91ee63b59cd037260ba353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bf59cb0ea5b0ddfbc46a1dc2fa78fc8b9986ce4"},{"version":"4c190e2f913f038c9c91ee63b59cd037260ba353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6267cccd7b05cc514e57f2160aa8db85f5c2701"},{"version":"4c190e2f913f038c9c91ee63b59cd037260ba353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad0cce80d4af2f74674e8b635d97aa3880e83da8"},{"version":"4c190e2f913f038c9c91ee63b59cd037260ba353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"85e9602650e9df07190abe817cee3b4d9bc3df17"},{"version":"4c190e2f913f038c9c91ee63b59cd037260ba353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f491306dcb673ff5e78e1044ba450c58978774e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"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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