# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89698"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:16.551Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:51:11.410Z"
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-2026-89698"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89698.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89698"
title: "nfsd: widen nfsd_genl_rqstp address fields to sockaddr_storage"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: widen nfsd_genl_rqstp address fields to sockaddr_storage\n\nstruct nfsd_genl_rqstp declares rq_daddr and rq_saddr as plain\n\"struct sockaddr\" (16 bytes). When an IPv6 NFS client is connected,\nnfsd_genl_rpc_status_compose_msg() casts these fields to\n\"struct sockaddr_in6 *\" (28 bytes) and reads sin6_addr at offset 8..24,\nwhich extends 8 bytes past the end of the 16-byte sockaddr field into\nthe adjacent rq_flags member. The 16-byte nla_put_in6_addr then ships 8\nbytes of truncated IPv6 address followed by 8 bytes of rq_flags to\nuserspace via the NFSD_A_RPC_STATUS_SADDR6/DADDR6 netlink attributes.\n\nThis is reachable by any unprivileged process in the network namespace\nbecause NFSD_CMD_RPC_STATUS_GET uses GENL_CMD_CAP_DUMP without\nGENL_ADMIN_PERM.\n\nFix by widening rq_daddr and rq_saddr to struct sockaddr_storage so the\nIPv6 casts operate within bounds, copying sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)\nbytes in the memcpy calls so the full address is captured, and\nzero-initializing the genl_rqstp stack variable to prevent leaking\nuninitialized tail bytes through netlink."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a2e791639a1c5cac3f219b0d2632835d8f88d27"},{"version":"bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03c512f22d3fbe7a3767d6df5e3d88b8e7c105e5"},{"version":"bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcb69ad0dafb4a24b825183bb94055d5be8a10bd"},{"version":"bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a99d720ed2a5258564e5e9d5f39f3184a030d354"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","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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