CVE-2026-89709EPSS p37.2%
CVE-2026-89709CVE-2026-89709
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
lockd, nfsd: RCU-protect nlmsvc_ops dispatch
nlmsvc_ops is published by nfsd_lockd_init() and cleared by
nfsd_lockd_shutdown() with plain stores, while lockd dereferences
it unguarded from dispatch sites in fs/lockd/svcsubs.c. The pointer
targets nfsd's .rodata and the fopen/fclose callbacks live in nfsd's
.text, so a stale load after rmmod nfsd results in either a NULL
deref or a module-text use-after-free.
Declare nlmsvc_ops as __rcu, publish via rcu_assign_pointer(), clear
via RCU_INIT_POINTER() + synchronize_rcu(). Add a struct module
*owner field to nlmsvc_binding and pin the module across indirect
calls with try_module_get/module_put. When the binding is torn down,
fall back to fput() to avoid leaking struct file references.
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.1 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.45% probability of exploitation · percentile 37.2% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-13 |