Malformed timestamps via unchecked nanosecond values
Published Sep 11, 2026 · Updated Sep 11, 2026
Improper input validation in Linux 6.14 NFSD allows remote attackers to write malformed timestamps to disk through NFSv4. The TIME_DELEG_ACCESS and TIME_DELEG_MODIFY decode arms in nfs4xdr.c and nfs4callback.c copy an unchecked uint32_t into tv_nsec instead of rejecting values at or above NSEC_PER_SEC. Reachability requires an active NFSD path processing those attributes, and the bounded consequence is invalid file timestamp metadata reaching the backing filesystem.
Summary
What happened
Improper input validation in Linux 6.14 NFSD allows remote attackers to write malformed timestamps to disk through NFSv4. The TIME_DELEG_ACCESS and TIME_DELEG_MODIFY decode arms in nfs4xdr.c and nfs4callback.c copy an unchecked uint32_t into tv_nsec instead of rejecting values at or above NSEC_PER_SEC. Reachability requires an active NFSD path processing those attributes, and the bounded consequence is invalid file timestamp metadata reaching the backing filesystem.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-89701
- Published
- Sep 11, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
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- network
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- Sep 11, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.14
- Affected versionversion=6ae30d6eb26bce02c48c60074b4306270e2434c1 <0f4a767340fad392bd656115b8752005518c9065
- Affected versionversion=6ae30d6eb26bce02c48c60074b4306270e2434c1 <5eb489831a9fd4754f4baf26e6989efb66ce104c
- Affected versionversion=6ae30d6eb26bce02c48c60074b4306270e2434c1 <7e7b93da7fa2e77f977096251899d1410986adf6
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