Bug 2507208 (CVE-2026-64298)

Summary: CVE-2026-64298 kernel: NFSv4: include MAY_WRITE in open permission mask for O_TRUNC
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NFSv4 implementation. A local user could exploit a vulnerability where opening a file with O_TRUNC (truncate) and O_RDONLY (read-only) flags would bypass the necessary write permission checks. This oversight allows an attacker to truncate a file without having explicit write access, leading to unauthorized data modification.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-25 10:10:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFSv4: include MAY_WRITE in open permission mask for O_TRUNC

POSIX requires write permission to truncate a file, so an open() that
specifies O_TRUNC must be authorized for write access regardless of the
O_ACCMODE access mode.

nfs_open_permission_mask() builds the access mask passed to
nfs_may_open(), which is the local authorization gate for OPENs the
client serves itself from a cached write delegation via the
can_open_delegated() path in nfs4_try_open_cached().  The mask is
derived from O_ACCMODE alone, so an open(O_RDONLY | O_TRUNC) against a
file the caller cannot write requests only MAY_READ and passes the
local check.  The OPEN is then satisfied locally and the truncation is
issued to the server as a SETATTR(size=0) over the delegation stateid,
which the server accepts under standard write-delegation semantics.
POSIX requires that this open fail with EACCES.

Include MAY_WRITE in the mask whenever O_TRUNC is set so the local
check matches the access the server would have enforced.