{"id":"CVE-2026-89538","summary":"SUNRPC: Reject krb5 v2 wrap tokens with oversized ec field","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: Reject krb5 v2 wrap tokens with oversized ec field\n\ngss_krb5_unwrap_v2() sets buf-\u003elen to a logical\nlength, which can be much smaller than head[0].iov_len\n(the allocated receive-page capacity).  It then calls\nxdr_buf_trim() with a trim length derived from the 16-bit\n\"extra count\" (ec) field in the Kerberos v2 token header.\n\nThe ec field is authenticated by the post-decrypt memcmp()\nagainst the encrypted header copy, so a randomly-mutated\nvalue is rejected.  However, any peer holding a valid GSS\ncontext can legitimately encrypt a token whose ec exceeds\nthe plaintext length.  Per RFC 4121, such a token is\nstructurally malformed.\n\nAlthough xdr_buf_trim() now clamps the buf-\u003elen subtraction\nto avoid unsigned underflow, the buffer is still left in a\nsemantically invalid state (zero length, inconsistent iov\nlengths) when ec is oversized.\n\nReject these tokens before calling xdr_buf_trim(), giving\ncallers a well-defined GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN error and\nkeeping the xdr_buf internally consistent.  The wrapped blob\nbegins at a nonzero offset -- both callers pass len as\noffset + opaque_len -- so buf-\u003elen still counts the offset\nbytes that precede the blob.  Compare the trim length\nagainst the remaining wrapped segment, buf-\u003elen - offset,\nrather than the whole buffer; comparing against buf-\u003elen\nalone leaves an offset-wide window in which an oversized ec\npasses the test and xdr_buf_trim() cuts into the bytes ahead\nof the blob.","modified":"2026-09-25T18:27:06.430814735Z","published":"2026-09-11T19:44:15.953Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2026:11880-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89538.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f9856af065b6158271687e9788407b9573fd16f"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4abb44a29bb515df6f49123848765c70fc9b5021"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/880effc943ed82d6811f272ed3307c222b40f4d6"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fc6d6e6db49ab55208d5dd1c424c1d0d9aa7296"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac9efc29346b6942e71f0e24a3178a9121330fab"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad484748eec0a66eac0f13ab53b3fbedb7333c91"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5746095b59f4d11f39f08751d36bbdfd1e5deac"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfcd81ab45613d45996fbf483d4ef54b0ec90ab9"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89538.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89538"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"cf4c024b908353fcc48309374d39e3399d67dfd1"},{"fixed":"ac9efc29346b6942e71f0e24a3178a9121330fab"},{"fixed":"b5746095b59f4d11f39f08751d36bbdfd1e5deac"},{"fixed":"9fc6d6e6db49ab55208d5dd1c424c1d0d9aa7296"},{"fixed":"4abb44a29bb515df6f49123848765c70fc9b5021"},{"fixed":"dfcd81ab45613d45996fbf483d4ef54b0ec90ab9"},{"fixed":"1f9856af065b6158271687e9788407b9573fd16f"},{"fixed":"880effc943ed82d6811f272ed3307c222b40f4d6"},{"fixed":"ad484748eec0a66eac0f13ab53b3fbedb7333c91"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89538.json"}},{"package":{"name":"Kernel","ecosystem":"Linux"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"3.13.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.270"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.221"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.188"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.157"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.109"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.50"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.19.0"},{"fixed":"7.2.4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89538.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}