# CVE-2026-89690

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-89690
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 7.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
- **CWE:** N/A
- **Published:** Sep 11, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Sep 13, 2026

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: defer vfree of compound ops to fix rpc_status UAF

The rpc_status netlink dumpit walks every in-flight svc_rqst under
rcu_read_lock and, for NFSv4 requests, reads opnums out of
args->ops[]. But args->ops is a separate vmalloc buffer freed
synchronously by vfree() in nfsd4_release_compoundargs() at the end
of every compound. The dumpit's rcu_read_lock pins the svc_rqst
struct itself (freed via kfree_rcu), but nothing defers the vfree
of the ops buffer across the RCU grace period. A concurrent compound
completion can therefore free the buffer while the dumpit is reading
it — a use-after-free on vmalloc memory.

The trailing seqcount recheck (smp_load_acquire of rq_status_counter)
cannot undo a load that already retired against freed memory.

Fix by replacing vfree(args->ops) with kvfree_rcu_mightsleep(), which
defers the free until after an RCU grace period. This makes the
existing rcu_read_lock in the dumpit sufficient to protect the read.
The tradeoff is that completed compound ops buffers (up to
200 * sizeof(struct nfsd4_op)) persist in memory slightly longer,
across one grace period, before being reclaimed.

## Affected Products

- Linux — Linux (bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c)
- Linux — Linux (6.7)
- Linux — Linux (0)
- Linux — Linux (6.12.109)
- Linux — Linux (6.18.50)
- Linux — Linux (7.2.4)
- Linux — Linux (7.3-rc1)

## References

- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48f72aff24f7a7329209dc6cbc27c869f3e3595c)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6703199f4d7e7f37d6a726a849eb358e8fae72fb)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19413ccc45070a7270b9e25c2a258daf7f91de42)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fca26a3fc19ed02278aa2a150af82d43db0302cb)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.16%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 5.4

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-18._