Threats Tagged 'cve-2025-68803'

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's NFS server (NFSD) causes NFSv4 file creation to neglect setting the requested POSIX ACL. When an NFSv4 client sets an ACL with a named principal during file creation, the ACL returned afterwards is a default one derived from mode bits rather than the originally specified ACL. This behavior violates RFC 8881 section 6.4.1.3, which requires the ACL attribute to be set as given. The issue stems from the nfsd_create_setattr() function skipping the application of POSIX ACLs due to incomplete checks in nfsd_attrs_valid().

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: NFSv4 file creation neglects setting ACL An NFSv4 client that sets an ACL with a named principal during file creation retrieves the ACL afterwards, and finds that it is only a default ACL (based on the mode bits) and not the ACL that was requested during file creation. This violates RFC 8881 section 6.4.1.3: "the ACL attribute is set as given". The issue occurs in nfsd_create_setattr(), which calls nfsd_attrs_valid() to determine whether to call nfsd_setattr(). However, nfsd_attrs_valid() checks only for iattr changes and security labels, but not POSIX ACLs. When only an ACL is present, the function returns false, nfsd_setattr() is skipped, and the POSIX ACL is never applied to the inode. Subsequently, when the client retrieves the ACL, the server finds no POSIX ACL on the inode and returns one generated from the file's mode bits rather than returning the originally-specified ACL.