CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89695

Unknown
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In the Linux kernel's nfsd module, nfsd4_decode_posixacl() accepts an unbounded ACL entry count from the client and passes it to an O(n^2) bubble sort. A client can choose an arbitrarily large value, causing excessive CPU consumption on the server. The symmetric NFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES check present on the encoder side is missing in the decoder.

Risk Assessment

A remote NFS client can cause a denial-of-service attack by overloading the file server's CPU. This may lead to slowdown or unavailability of NFS services for all clients.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that rejects ACL counts greater than NFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES before allocation. Monitor NFS server CPU load until the patch is applied.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: cap decoded POSIX ACL count to bound sort cost nfsd4_decode_posixacl() reads a u32 entry count off the wire and passes it straight to posix_acl_alloc() and sort_pacl_range(). The latter is an O(n^2) bubble sort, so a client-chosen count drives unbounded CPU in the server's compound processing path. nfsd4_decode_posixacl() xdr_stream_decode_u32(&count) /* uncapped u32 */ posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_KERNEL) sort_pacl_range(*acl, 0, count - 1) /* O(n^2) bubble sort */ The encoder side in the same file already rejects ACLs whose a_count exceeds NFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES, but the decoder introduced in commit 5fc51dfc2eb1 ("NFSD: Add support for XDR decoding POSIX draft ACLs") omitted the symmetric check. Fix by rejecting a wire count greater than NFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES with nfserr_inval, before any allocation, so the sort is bounded by NFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES^2 comparisons. While we're in here, also fix the nfserr_resource return if posix_acl_alloc() fails. That's not a legal error code for v4.1+. Change it to return nfserr_jukebox as that's more appropriate for memory allocation failures.

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