CVE-2026-89545EPSS p5.0%
CVE-2026-89545CVE-2026-89545
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sunrpc: defer rq_argp and rq_resp free until after RCU grace period
svc_rqst_free() frees rqstp->rq_argp and rqstp->rq_resp synchronously
via kfree(), but defers the rqstp struct free via kfree_rcu(). After
svc_exit_thread() calls list_del_rcu() and svc_rqst_free(), there is
a window where RCU readers that started before list_del_rcu() can still
traverse the thread list and find the rqstp. These readers (e.g.
nfsd_nl_rpc_status_get_dumpit()) dereference rqstp->rq_argp, which has
already been freed — a use-after-free.
Fix this by moving the kfree of rq_argp and rq_resp into an explicit
call_rcu() callback alongside the struct free. Resources not accessed
by RCU readers (bvec, buffer pages, scratch folio, auth_data) remain
synchronously freed.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.16% probability of exploitation · percentile 5.0% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-21 |