CVE-2026-89666EPSS p5.5%
CVE-2026-89666CVE-2026-89666
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: reject out-of-range nseconds in NFSv3 SETATTR and create ops
A client can send an NFSv3 SETATTR, CREATE, MKDIR, SYMLINK or MKNOD
carrying an atime or mtime whose nseconds field is out of range. The
value is well-formed on the wire and decodes cleanly into a valid
uint32, but it is not a valid timespec64: tv_nsec must be less than
NSEC_PER_SEC.
Nothing in the setattr path clamps it. notify_change() runs the time
through timestamp_truncate(), which does not reduce tv_nsec below
NSEC_PER_SEC when the filesystem supports nanosecond granularity
(s_time_gran == 1), and the inode atime/mtime setters store it verbatim
(only ctime is normalized, via inode_set_ctime_to_ts()). The
un-normalized value then corrupts on-disk metadata: ext4's
ext4_encode_extra_time() shifts tv_nsec left by EXT4_EPOCH_BITS, which
overflows the 32-bit extra field and clobbers the seconds-epoch bits, so
the stored seconds (and thus the year) ar
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.17% probability of exploitation · percentile 5.5% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-11 |