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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89679"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:02.833Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:50:52.556Z"
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-2026-89679"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89679.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89679"
title: "nfsd: fix null dereference in nfsd4_setattr for deleg timestamp attrs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: fix null dereference in nfsd4_setattr for deleg timestamp attrs\n\nWhen a SETATTR request includes FATTR4_WORD2_TIME_DELEG_ACCESS or\nFATTR4_WORD2_TIME_DELEG_MODIFY in the attribute bitmap, nfsd4_setattr()\nsets deleg_attrs=true and calls nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op() to validate\nthe stateid.\n\nIf the client supplies the NFSv4 \"one stateid\" (all-0xFF bytes),\ncheck_special_stateids() returns nfs_ok without populating the output\nnfs4_stid pointer, because the special-stateid path in\nnfs4_preprocess_stateid_op() jumps to done: with s==NULL, and the\n\"if (s)\" block that would set *cstid is skipped. The local variable `st`\nremains NULL.\n\nBack in nfsd4_setattr(), the if (deleg_attrs) block then unconditionally\ndereferences st-\u003esc_type (at offset 4 from NULL), causing a kernel oops.\n\nThis is remotely triggerable by any NFSv4 client: send COMPOUND [PUTROOTFH,\nSETATTR(ONE_STATEID, {bmval2=FATTR4_WORD2_TIME_DELEG_ACCESS, ...})].\nNo authentication, delegation, or prior state is required.\n\nFix by adding a NULL check before the dereference. A special stateid is\nnot a delegation stateid, so the existing nfserr_bad_stateid return value\nis already correct; we only need to guard the pointer dereference itself."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7e13f4f8d27dc02fb88666f603c53ca749d56f92","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c5119b799a7f57db332b2c31e806de16c869f0f"},{"version":"7e13f4f8d27dc02fb88666f603c53ca749d56f92","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c896db123892256fd39af0ee8c2d02c63539983"},{"version":"7e13f4f8d27dc02fb88666f603c53ca749d56f92","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fe456c8c0931bb3e8a03d429920e87fd85747fba"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"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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