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CVE-2026-68388

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb/client: handle overlapping allocated ranges in fallocate smb3_simple_fallocate_range() can skip holes when an allocated range returned by the server starts before the current fallocate offset. The skipped hole is not zero-filled, but fallocate still returns success. A later write to that hole may therefore fail with ENOSPC. The function queries allocated ranges so that it can preserve existing contents and write zeroes only into holes. However, the server may return a range that starts before the current fallocate offset. For example, assume the fallocate request is [100, 400) and the only allocated range returned by the server is [0, 200): Request: [100, 400) Server range: [ 0, 200) allocated Correct: [100, 200) allocated data, skip [200, 400) hole, zero-fill Current: [100, 300) skipped [300, 400) zero-filled afterwards The current code adds the full server range length, 200, to the current offset 100 and moves to 300. As a result, the hole in [200, 300) is skipped without being zero-filled. Fix this by advancing only over the part of the allocated range that overlaps the current fallocate offset. Ignore ranges that end before the current offset and reject ranges whose end offset overflows. This also prevents a malformed range length from causing an out-of-bounds zero-buffer read.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.8 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Published
2026-08-10 13:20:32.060000
Last modified
2026-10-19 22:17:16.397000
View original CVE JSON 
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  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-08-10T13:20:32.060",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T22:17:16.397",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb/client: handle overlapping allocated ranges in fallocate\n\nsmb3_simple_fallocate_range() can skip holes when an allocated range\nreturned by the server starts before the current fallocate offset. The\nskipped hole is not zero-filled, but fallocate still returns success. A\nlater write to that hole may therefore fail with ENOSPC.\n\nThe function queries allocated ranges so that it can preserve existing\ncontents and write zeroes only into holes. However, the server may return\na range that starts before the current fallocate offset.\n\nFor example, assume the fallocate request is [100, 400) and the only\nallocated range returned by the server is [0, 200):\n\n        Request:      [100, 400)\n        Server range: [  0, 200)  allocated\n\n        Correct:\n        [100, 200)    allocated data, skip\n        [200, 400)    hole, zero-fill\n\n        Current:\n        [100, 300)    skipped\n        [300, 400)    zero-filled afterwards\n\nThe current code adds the full server range length, 200, to the current\noffset 100 and moves to 300. As a result, the hole in [200, 300) is\nskipped without being zero-filled.\n\nFix this by advancing only over the part of the allocated range that\noverlaps the current fallocate offset.  Ignore ranges that end before the\ncurrent offset and reject ranges whose end offset overflows.\n\nThis also prevents a malformed range length from causing an out-of-bounds\nzero-buffer read."
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