CVE-2026-89539

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: reject duplicate CREDS_VALUE options gssx_dec_option_array() walks the wire-supplied option array and, for every entry whose name matches CREDS_VALUE, calls gssx_dec_linux_creds() on the same struct svc_cred. That helper unconditionally installs a fresh groups_alloc() result into creds->cr_group_info without releasing whatever pointer was already there: for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { ... decode name ... if (length == sizeof(CREDS_VALUE) && memcmp(p, CREDS_VALUE, sizeof(CREDS_VALUE)) == 0) { err = gssx_dec_linux_creds(xdr, creds); ... } } A reply that carries two CREDS_VALUE entries therefore overwrites cr_group_info on the second iteration and orphans the group_info allocated by the first call. The earlier free_creds path only releases the last cr_group_info via free_svc_cred(), so the first allocation's refcount stays at one and its kvmalloc-backed storage is leaked. No in-tree caller of gssp_accept_sec_context_upcall() expects more than one CREDS_VALUE per reply. Fix by tracking whether a CREDS_VALUE option has already been decoded and returning -EINVAL on any subsequent match, so the free_creds path releases the single group_info that was installed.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89539
• https://git.kernel.org/linus/2e4ce62385c1b8a887c5370af058ac7b52a8eaf9 (7.3-rc1)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e4ce62385c1b8a887c5370af058ac7b52a8eaf9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a1d0501cbb962beba23377035d667bf3c1726ee
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d94f046b23de0f77849ea69133063c949297e30
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f615b884310bf82d0014e3b5a92eb9aa88146685