# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98686"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:45:55.193Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:41.290Z"
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-2026-98686"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98686.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98686"
title: "smb: client: discard post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via zero range"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: discard post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via zero range\n\nsmb3_zero_range() removed the pagecache only for the range being zeroed,\nso when it extends the file the folio straddling the old EOF - which may\nhold data dirtied past EOF through an mmap - was never dropped and became\nvisible as file content once the file was extended.\n\nLower the discard boundary to the smaller of the zero-range offset and the\nold EOF."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"72c419d9b073628d3b5b0b2fc787b724f1a8c726","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3df27277f8f95345d4a6c57367824bf1aefdbf66"},{"version":"72c419d9b073628d3b5b0b2fc787b724f1a8c726","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94949b6b2f2bf0dba2e8786aed0b08cc6bc3a183"},{"version":"72c419d9b073628d3b5b0b2fc787b724f1a8c726","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b75dadb50a25eed525264bf6fea44fad94e7626f"},{"version":"72c419d9b073628d3b5b0b2fc787b724f1a8c726","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a8279c98ad289b27c0bdb11adb3f0c0b7fd456d"},{"version":"72c419d9b073628d3b5b0b2fc787b724f1a8c726","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da4fe97fb6c730d9c94a115c7bfa6f98e0d578d0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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