CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98127
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-22
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb/client: validate new EOF for insert range
smb3_insert_range() does not check if the new file size
(i_size + len) is valid. This allows FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE to bypass
RLIMIT_FSIZE, exceed s_maxbytes, or produce a size outside the loff_t
range.
Use check_add_overflow() to calculate the new EOF. Validate it with
inode_newsize_ok() before modifying the file.
Reproducer, using a file on a CIFS mount:
bash -c '
FILE=/mnt/cifs/repro
trap "" SIGXFSZ
ulimit -f 3072 # RLIMIT_FSIZE = 3 MiB
# A regular write is stopped at 3 MiB.
dd if=/dev/zero of="$FILE" bs=1M count=4 status=none
stat -c "size after write: %s" "$FILE"
# Insert 2 MiB into a 2 MiB file.
truncate -s 2M "$FILE"
fallocate -i -o 0 -l 2M "$FILE"
stat -c "size after insert: %s" "$FILE"
'
Before this change, the regular write stops at the 3 MiB limit, but
insert range grows the file to 4 MiB:
dd: error writing '/mnt/cifs/repro': File too large
size after write: 3145728
size after insert: 4194304
After this change, insert range also fails at the limit and leaves the
2 MiB file unchanged:
dd: error writing '/mnt/cifs/repro': File too large
size after write: 3145728
fallocate: fallocate failed: File too large
size after insert: 2097152
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 6.6.160)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.111)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.53)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.2.7)
• linux linux kernel 7.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1519dc88c87f5346dae0464d7d6da1b6bf1f6e8e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c2c69045aa76ccaa7f16f1478eb312130ce4951 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f2e33d9f5db7b8e6e5e0a5a93d0c5e31870356 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc7602b9082ef195d913c4c16fa9853dd262333e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8cbfe3a3fcee7d991fd223f660f3e5df13221cf Patch