CVE-2026-64298

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-64298

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFSv4: include MAY_WRITE in open permission mask for O_TRUNC

POSIX requires write permission to truncate a file, so an open() that

specifies O_TRUNC must be authorized for write access regardless of the

O_ACCMODE access mode.

nfs_open_permission_mask() builds the access mask passed to

nfs_may_open(), which is the local authorization gate for OPENs the

client serves itself from a cached write delegation via the

can_open_delegated() path in nfs4_try_open_cached(). The mask is

derived from O_ACCMODE alone, so an open(O_RDONLY | O_TRUNC) against a

file the caller cannot write requests only MAY_READ and passes the

local check. The OPEN is then satisfied locally and the truncation is

issued to the server as a SETATTR(size=0) over the delegation stateid,

which the server accepts under standard write-delegation semantics.

POSIX requires that this open fail with EACCES.

Include MAY_WRITE in the mask whenever O_TRUNC is set so the local

check matches the access the server would have enforced. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References