CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89551
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: xdr_buf_trim: clamp buf->len to avoid underflow
xdr_buf_trim() trims `len` bytes from the tail of an xdr_buf by
walking the tail, pages, and head iovecs. Each per-section step
uses min_t() so it never removes more bytes than that section
holds, but the final accounting at the fix_len label subtracts the
total bytes actually consumed from buf->len without any clamp:
fix_len:
buf->len -= (len - trim);
When the caller has set buf->len to a value smaller than the sum
of the iov_lens, (len - trim) can exceed buf->len and the unsigned
subtraction wraps to near UINT_MAX. gss_krb5_unwrap_v2() reaches
xdr_buf_trim() in exactly that state:
buf->head[0].iov_len -= GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip;
buf->len = len - (GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip);
xdr_buf_trim(buf, ec + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + tailskip);
buf->len is a small wire-derived value while the iov_lens are at
page scale, so the per-section loops legitimately consume far more
bytes than buf->len records. The wrapped buf->len then propagates
as the authoritative stream bound into every downstream XDR
decoder.
Fix by clamping the decrement so buf->len bottoms out at zero:
buf->len -= min_t(unsigned int, buf->len, len - trim);
On the normal path where the iov_lens sum to buf->len, (len - trim)
is always <= buf->len and the result is identical to before. No
callers change behavior outside the underflow case.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f491306dcb673ff5e78e1044ba450c58978774e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bf59cb0ea5b0ddfbc46a1dc2fa78fc8b9986ce4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85e9602650e9df07190abe817cee3b4d9bc3df17 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3d77bcd974b8625d16bddf448cb3a1b5e37049c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a924ac4c78afab71bf82641afa3b62e0c4a8b55e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad0cce80d4af2f74674e8b635d97aa3880e83da8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6267cccd7b05cc514e57f2160aa8db85f5c2701 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa16bbe987b47e771e52eeb1b4540f18d92496ac git.kernel.org