Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.7,6.12.114)[6.13,6.18.57)[6.19,7.2.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20823006
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed11 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-89705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.114, 6.18.57, 7.2.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the nfsd_dispatch process. An attacker can access sensitive kernel memory and potentially cause a denial of service by exploiting a race condition in the handling of the rq_status_counter, which allows reading out-of-bounds data from adjacent slab memory via the nfsd_nl_rpc_status_get_dumpit process using specially crafted netlink requests. This is only exploitable if the attacker has local access and can issue NFSD_CMD_RPC_STATUS_GET over AF_NETLINK within the nfsd network namespace.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

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