CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-98126

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 25, 2026Sources checked Nov 12, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-98126 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Nov 7, 2026

Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

6.6.161.1-1

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-98126?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb/client: validate new EOF for zero range

When FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is used without FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, smb3_zero_range() may extend EOF without checking RLIMIT_FSIZE, allowing the file to grow beyond the caller's file-size limit.

Fix this by calling inode_newsize_ok() before sending the zero-range request when the operation would extend EOF.

Reproducer, using a file on a CIFS mount:

bash -c ' FILE=/mnt/cifs/repro

trap "" SIGXFSZ ulimit -f 3072

truncate -s 2M "$FILE" fallocate --zero-range -o 0 -l 4M "$FILE" echo "fallocate rc=$?" stat -c "file size=%s" "$FILE" '

Before this change, the operation succeeds despite the 3 MiB limit:

fallocate rc=0 file size=4194304

After this change, fallocate fails and leaves the file at 2 MiB.

Source: NVD