CVE-2026-68388

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-68388

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References