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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89661"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:49.086Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:50:32.806Z"
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-2026-89661"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89661.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89661"
title: "NFSD: Prevent post-shutdown use-after-free in unlock_filesystem"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSD: Prevent post-shutdown use-after-free in unlock_filesystem\n\nWriting a filesystem path to /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_filesystem runs\nnfsd4_cancel_copy_by_sb() before nfsd_mutex is held and before the\nhandler confirms that nn-\u003enfsd_serv is set. Once nfsd has shut down,\nnfs4_state_destroy_net() has freed nn-\u003econf_id_hashtbl but left the\npointer intact, so the cancel helper iterates freed slab memory as an\narray of struct list_head and then dereferences a bogus nfs4_client\nwhen it takes clp-\u003easync_lock. A local administrator holding\nCAP_SYS_ADMIN can reach this use-after-free by stopping the server and\nthen writing to unlock_filesystem; KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free\nread in nfsd4_cancel_copy_by_sb().\n\nnfsd4_revoke_states() walks the same state tables and for that reason\nalready runs only under nfsd_mutex with nn-\u003enfsd_serv confirmed\npresent. Move the async COPY cancel into that protected section so\nevery NFSv4 state-table walker on this path observes a running server.\nAsync copies exist only while the server runs, so gating the cancel on\nnn-\u003enfsd_serv loses nothing."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3daab3112f039cf849f96764019b096bb0a39d04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c1a755b7212e0835398d4df5e782ea85ccd7476"},{"version":"3daab3112f039cf849f96764019b096bb0a39d04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"292d915d3ba6fd15eeb88351fa10581683073109"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"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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