CVE-2026-98125 (GCVE-0-2026-98125)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-25 10:36 – Updated: 2026-10-21 12:54
VLAI
Title
smb/client: fix stale page cache in insert/collapse range
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb/client: fix stale page cache in insert/collapse range smb3_insert_range() and smb3_collapse_range() use truncate_pagecache_range() to invalidate the affected page cache. However, if off or old_eof is not page-aligned, the boundary pages are only partially zeroed and remain uptodate. As a result, the client may return stale data after a successful insert/collapse range operation. For example, with 4K pages: page 0 page 1 page 2 0------4K 4K------8K 8K------12K ^ ^ off=2K old_eof=10K Page 1 is removed from the page cache, while the boundary pages are only partially zeroed. After COPYCHUNK moves the data on the server, these cached pages may still return stale data. This can be reproduced on a CIFS mount: bash -c ' FILE=/mnt/scratch/repro # Use a 6 KiB file so EOF is not page-aligned. dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/src bs=1K count=6 status=none # Expected: a 4 KiB hole followed by the original data. rm -f /tmp/expected truncate -s 4K /tmp/expected cat /tmp/src >> /tmp/expected cp /tmp/src "$FILE" # Prime the page cache before moving data on the server. cat "$FILE" > /dev/null fallocate --insert-range -o 0 -l 4K "$FILE" if cmp -s /tmp/expected "$FILE"; then echo "readback: OK" else echo "readback: STALE DATA" fi ' Fix this by writing back dirty data and discarding the page cache from the start of the page containing off to EOF before moving data on the server.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: fa30a81f255a56cccd89552cd6ce7ea6e8d8acc4 , < 52dd721b3de57e41261e08485b2bc62b22b80ebe (git)
Affected: fa30a81f255a56cccd89552cd6ce7ea6e8d8acc4 , < 76222e76d08fbae4092ee9da84ded2b4c24ee598 (git)
Affected: fa30a81f255a56cccd89552cd6ce7ea6e8d8acc4 , < 01261a6fa48b62f5ead8e88aaca1e27cb9ab9032 (git)
Affected: 49523a4732204bdacbf3941a016503ddb4ddb3b9 (git)
Affected: 0cdde8460c304283d4ebe3f767a70215d1ab9d4e (git)
Affected: 5.19.12 , < 5.20 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.7 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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