NFSD: check truncate permission under inode lock (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89713
CRITICAL 9.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.66 % · percentile 52 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: check truncate permission under inode lock nfsd_setattr() checks whether a size update needs NFSD_MAY_TRUNC before it takes inode_lock(). The comparison uses the file size sampled by that unlocked read, but the actual ATTR_SIZE update is applied later under inode_lock() by notify_change(). This leaves a TOCTOU window for append-only files. If a client sends a SETATTR that does not shrink the file at the time of the unlocked sample, a concurrent append can extend the file before nfsd_setattr() takes inode_lock(). notify_change() then applies a real truncation without the NFSD_MAY_TRUNC check that rejects IS_APPEND(inode). The VFS truncate syscall paths perform their own append-only checks before calling notify_change(), so NFSD must make this decision against the locked size it is about to change. Split the write-count acquisition from the truncation permission check. Keep get_write_access() before the locked setattr work, then recheck whether the requested size is below i_size_read(inode) after inode_lock() has been acquired and before notify_change(ATTR_SIZE). This also avoids the plain unlocked inode->i_size load.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 783112f7401ff449d979530209b3f6c2594fdb4e < 0669861a2e8e2bdb9c1149417d8ad821996ae4fe ; affected 783112f7401ff449d979530209b3f6c2594fdb4e < 52d0c5bdfe232c9974d4b11f97078b9c7814f05d ; affected 783112f7401ff449d979530209b3f6c2594fdb4e < 3afa17d93ba8c925f49370c816c6dae5112d8c24 ; affected 783112f7401ff449d979530209b3f6c2594fdb4e < d8352da196349182e1afd5a93308256cddc0a97d ; affected 783112f7401ff449d979530209b3f6c2594fdb4e < 44086254479035de42ca3d286ecf25521d4e6325 ; affected 783112f7401ff449d979530209b3f6c2594fdb4e < b778e0e0a16759f22a70579c3cf8d254a40d4a7f
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.11 ; unaffected 0 < 4.11 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.109 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.50 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD