# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89699"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:17.293Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:51:12.396Z"
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-2026-89699"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89699.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89699"
title: "nfsd: validate symlink target length in NFSv4 CREATE"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: validate symlink target length in NFSv4 CREATE\n\nnfsd4_decode_create() accepts an unbounded cr_datalen from the wire for\nNF4LNK symlink targets, allowing a client to force a kmalloc of up to\nthe maximum RPC payload size (several MiB) per COMPOUND op that persists\nuntil compound teardown.  The VFS rejects oversized targets with\nENAMETOOLONG, but the allocation has already occurred.\n\nReject cr_datalen == 0 early with nfserr_inval and cr_datalen greater\nthan NFS4_MAXPATHLEN (PATH_MAX) with nfserr_nametoolong to bound the\nallocation."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36011308b3f01ce7dc9954f3cefcbb5291af9f95"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"888dad4b557352cf85be31613407b5ba51ad07d1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8661d3cb38fd148947e57dbc0871fd4d3fa33bbf"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ef5e7a01a4d74995a65496bc9166d1e980a4355"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b24843ea3de1676b29902457b38507c95a80649b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"895a485cd3758031ef9993c0d53cf19ce8fb4ccc"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45ec115cbfecb4b3cfab7fca6f73d1b60696a25a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"041f57056e5fb9c80adc088269322d2c61074406"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"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"}]

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