CVE-2026-98686: vulnerability in Linux
smb: client: discard post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via zero range
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: discard post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via zero range
smb3_zero_range() removed the pagecache only for the range being zeroed,
so when it extends the file the folio straddling the old EOF - which may
hold data dirtied past EOF through an mmap - was never dropped and became
visible as file content once the file was extended.
Lower the discard boundary to the smaller of the zero-range offset and the
old EOF.
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3df27277f8f95345d4a6c57367824bf1aefdbf66https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a8279c98ad289b27c0bdb11adb3f0c0b7fd456dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94949b6b2f2bf0dba2e8786aed0b08cc6bc3a183https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b75dadb50a25eed525264bf6fea44fad94e7626fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da4fe97fb6c730d9c94a115c7bfa6f98e0d578d0