# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98124"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:36:06.581Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:35.267Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98124"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98124.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98124"
title: "smb/client: invalidate fscache for fallocate range operations"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb/client: invalidate fscache for fallocate range operations\n\nsmb3_zero_range(), smb3_punch_hole(), smb3_insert_range(), and\nsmb3_collapse_range() modify file contents through server-side range\noperations. These operations discard the affected page cache, but leave\nthe FS-Cache cookie valid, so a later read may return data cached before\nthe range operation.\n\nFix this by invalidating FS-Cache after outstanding I/O has completed\nand before modifying the file on the server.\n\nRun the following as root on a CIFS mount with fsc enabled and an active\nCacheFiles backend:\n\n        bash -c '\n                MNT=/mnt/cifs\n                FILE=\"$MNT/repro\"\n\n                # Generate four 1 MiB random blocks: [A][B][C][D].\n                dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/src bs=1M count=4 status=none\n\n                # Expected contents after zeroing B: [A][zero][C][D].\n                cp /tmp/src /tmp/expected\n                dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/expected bs=1M seek=1 count=1 \\\n                        conv=notrunc status=none\n                cp /tmp/src \"$FILE\"\n\n                # Populate FS-Cache, then discard the page cache.\n                sync\n                echo 1 \u003e /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches\n                cat \"$FILE\" \u003e /dev/null\n                sync\n                echo 1 \u003e /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches\n\n                fallocate --zero-range -o 1M -l 1M \"$FILE\"\n\n                if cmp -s /tmp/expected \"$FILE\"; then\n                        echo \"readback: OK\"\n                else\n                        echo \"readback: STALE DATA\"\n                fi\n        '\n\nBefore this change, the readback differs from /tmp/expected:\n\n        readback: STALE DATA\n\nAfter this change, it matches:\n\n        readback: OK"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"31742c5a331766bc7df6b0d525df00c6cd20d5a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc7202a51b8777a757bda9dcfbf339f828c6a130"},{"version":"31742c5a331766bc7df6b0d525df00c6cd20d5a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd8b1e808f5c19479e6ed47e2f88a1fd46f8b0e5"},{"version":"31742c5a331766bc7df6b0d525df00c6cd20d5a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93c6e5a8d7c5071d586c1411596d5db5faad22b2"},{"version":"31742c5a331766bc7df6b0d525df00c6cd20d5a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"448ba0ae65ca61064183564d2983c9aa59bd6ba7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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