CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89539
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: reject duplicate CREDS_VALUE options
gssx_dec_option_array() walks the wire-supplied option array and, for
every entry whose name matches CREDS_VALUE, calls
gssx_dec_linux_creds() on the same struct svc_cred. That helper
unconditionally installs a fresh groups_alloc() result into
creds->cr_group_info without releasing whatever pointer was already
there:
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
... decode name ...
if (length == sizeof(CREDS_VALUE) &&
memcmp(p, CREDS_VALUE, sizeof(CREDS_VALUE)) == 0) {
err = gssx_dec_linux_creds(xdr, creds);
...
}
}
A reply that carries two CREDS_VALUE entries therefore overwrites
cr_group_info on the second iteration and orphans the group_info
allocated by the first call. The earlier free_creds path only
releases the last cr_group_info via free_svc_cred(), so the first
allocation's refcount stays at one and its kvmalloc-backed storage
is leaked. No in-tree caller of gssp_accept_sec_context_upcall()
expects more than one CREDS_VALUE per reply.
Fix by tracking whether a CREDS_VALUE option has already been
decoded and returning -EINVAL on any subsequent match, so the
free_creds path releases the single group_info that was installed.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e4ce62385c1b8a887c5370af058ac7b52a8eaf9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b5ebb4f91a6152a0f7b1253f701197e5710d4da git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a1d0501cbb962beba23377035d667bf3c1726ee git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d94f046b23de0f77849ea69133063c949297e30 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f615b884310bf82d0014e3b5a92eb9aa88146685 git.kernel.org