CVE-2026-89671

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-89671

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

nfsd: gate nfs3 setacl by argp->mask

nfsd3_proc_setacl() calls set_posix_acl() unconditionally for both

ACL_TYPE_ACCESS and ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT, passing argp->acl_access and

argp->acl_default verbatim. The NFSv3 ACL decoder only populates

those pointers when the corresponding mask bit is set:

nfs3svc_decode_setaclargs()

if (args->mask & NFS_ACL) decode into acl_access

if (args->mask & NFS_DFACL) decode into acl_default

/* otherwise the pointer stays NULL (pc_argzero) */

nfsd3_proc_setacl()

set_posix_acl(.., ACL_TYPE_ACCESS, argp->acl_access)

set_posix_acl(.., ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT, argp->acl_default)

set_posix_acl(idmap, dentry, type, NULL) is the VFS "remove this

ACL type" operation. A NULL pointer that means "the client did not

send this arm" is therefore indistinguishable from "the client

asked to remove this ACL". A SETACL with mask=NFS_ACL silently

drops the directory's default ACL; mask=0 drops both.

The sibling nfsd3_proc_getacl() already consults argp->mask before

touching each arm; mirror that in setacl.

Fix by wrapping each set_posix_acl() call in the matching mask bit

check and initializing error to 0 before inode_lock so that a

request with neither bit set leaves the on-disk ACLs untouched and

returns nfs_ok. The out_drop_lock path and the unconditional

posix_acl_release() at out: are preserved; both NULL-tolerate the

skipped arms. (NVD)

What to Do

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

References