CVE-2026-89677 — Linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix possible fh_compose
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix possible fh_compose of wrong dentry in nfsd4_create_file() dentry_create() can hypothetically provide a different dentry than the one passed in. This could happen, for example, if the exported filesystem is NFS, and the server returned to OPEN a filehandle which matched a directory that was already in the dcache. Clearly this would not be expected! If this were to happen the dentry (child) that CVSSv3.1 9.8 (CRITICAL) · EPSS 6th percentile