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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89696" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:15.030Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:51:09.479Z" 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-2026-89696" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89696.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89696" title: "nfsd: block non-SAVEFH ops after FOREIGN PUTFH to prevent NULL deref" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: block non-SAVEFH ops after FOREIGN PUTFH to prevent NULL deref\n\nWhen CONFIG_NFSD_V4_2_INTER_SSC is enabled, nfsd4_putfh() can return\nsuccess with fh_dentry and fh_export both NULL if fh_verify() returns\nnfserr_stale and putfh-\u003eno_verify is true. The NFSD4_FH_FOREIGN flag\nis set, but the compound dispatch loop only uses this flag to bypass\nthe nfserr_nofilehandle check -- it does not prevent subsequent ops\nfrom running with a NULL fh_dentry.\n\nA remote client can exploit this by crafting a COMPOUND that includes\nan inter-SSC COPY (which causes check_if_stalefh_allowed() to set\nno_verify=true on the saved PUTFH) with an additional op inserted\nbetween the source PUTFH and SAVEFH. For example, SETATTR calls\nfh_want_write() which dereferences fh_export-\u003eex_path.mnt without\ncalling fh_verify() first, causing a NULL pointer dereference in the\nnfsd kthread.\n\nFix this by gating the dispatch loop: when NFSD4_FH_FOREIGN is set\nand fh_dentry is NULL, only OP_SAVEFH (needed for the inter-SSC flow)\nand ops with ALLOWED_WITHOUT_FH (which don't need a resolved\nfilehandle) may proceed. All other ops receive nfserr_stale, per\nRFC 7862 Section 15.2.3 which specifies that foreign filehandle\nvalidation is deferred to the consuming operation and NFS4ERR_STALE\nreturned at that point." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b9e8638e3d9ed8334f1f7071e081860aac37e83e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffdc844e673d2bcb2af8c8c3eef8cdea59d0bf32"},{"version":"b9e8638e3d9ed8334f1f7071e081860aac37e83e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00c84f4eec715e501efc080a5670114189e42507"},{"version":"b9e8638e3d9ed8334f1f7071e081860aac37e83e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d9846fd1c767920fddd4bde30eb35cd2969df13"},{"version":"b9e8638e3d9ed8334f1f7071e081860aac37e83e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"977e6f006a7a3ffc4216ae6034f768f8de6fd138"},{"version":"b9e8638e3d9ed8334f1f7071e081860aac37e83e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35f248bd40b47b229d4999581df45b97daadd977"},{"version":"b9e8638e3d9ed8334f1f7071e081860aac37e83e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"311f7d926630940650447cbd1c932b076b40a6c4"},{"version":"b9e8638e3d9ed8334f1f7071e081860aac37e83e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf4d338dc8625d70c7f2cb0657d66851a7ac9154"},{"version":"b9e8638e3d9ed8334f1f7071e081860aac37e83e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c59738a00aa51b16adc1b5ceb7c80877168efb4d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"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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