CVE-2026-89548: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
SUNRPC: always drain cache_cleaner before destroying a cache_detail
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 98% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: always drain cache_cleaner before destroying a cache_detail
sunrpc_destroy_cache_detail() only cancels the global cache_cleaner
delayed_work when cache_list is empty. During per-netns teardown
cache_list is never empty because init_net's caches remain registered,
so the cancel never fires. After unlink, the caller proceeds to
cache_destroy_net() which kfrees the cache_detail while cache_clean()
may still hold a dangling pointer to it. The result is a
use-after-free: cache_dequeue() takes cd->queue_lock on freed memory,
and cache_put() dereferences cd->cache_put as a function pointer from
freed slab.
Drop the list_empty guard so that cancel_delayed_work_sync() always
runs, ensuring any in-flight cache_clean() completes before the
cache_detail is freed. Re-arm the cleaner afterwards if other caches
are still registered.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e861ce2aaa468351a6a47c4cbb4971ebb740c7bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d60fdf951143d6ef4e352e2f8eb852286701726https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5eea874a696201c31e7c2d7badbfa0d90e9961b5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d74ecc2be120a0c300b224b7649fe93c0453714https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d44836f60c8c29bcdb1471fd9202387c642a890https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf239de7fdcc8336259b01ea4bcf650dadad1040https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dec787a15c96a5665e9ffc61b429a6a4ab26e6b9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f42d0fda0c67695db6bc704b04b7c10240805377