CVE-2026-93794 json
smb/client: flush dirty data before punching a hole
published last mo. modified 12d ago also EUVD-2026-86181
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb/client: flush dirty data before punching a hole
Punching a hole after a large buffered write may leave the range reported as data. Reproduce it with:
xfs_io -f \ -c "pwrite -b 3m -S 0x61 0 3m" \ -c "fpunch 1m 1m" \ -c "seek -h 0" \ -c "seek -d 1m" \ /mnt/test/repro
Punching 1 MiB at offset 1 MiB should produce:
0 1 MiB 2 MiB 3 MiB | DATA | HOLE | DATA | EOF
Instead, the entire file is reported as data. SEEK_HOLE(0) returns EOF, and SEEK_DATA(1M) returns 1M.
This happens because a dirty folio spanning the punched range can be written back after the punch and refill the hole.
Fix this by flushing and waiting for dirty data in the punched range before invalidating the page cache and issuing FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA.
The xfstests generic/539 pass against Samba/ksmbd with this change.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 6.1.191, 6.6.158, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2
- linux Debian 13 6.12.111-1
- linux Debian 14 7.2.6-1
- linux-6.12 Debian 12 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-93794
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.17
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.18
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
- linux-riscv Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42.1
- linux-oracle Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1015.16
- linux-hwe-7.0 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1
- linux-oem-7.0 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-93794
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-default SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP7, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +2 more 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-zfcpdump SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-obs-build SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-default-base SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1.150700.17.47.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4706-1SUSE-SU-2026:4687-1SUSE-SU-2026:4640-1SUSE-SU-2026:24316-1SUSE-SU-2026:24315-1SUSE-SU-2026:24181-1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.39.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.39.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.39.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.39.1
- kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.39.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.39.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.39.1
- kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.39.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:22091-1
- kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.158.1-1
azure linux advisories AZL-103667
Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c9fcab9bf1ef3516983f3de05a19c5658c7a01e commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/216e469586057c29409e4ef8311d282388c6e251 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c265aca08155e519a8f6f6071c59dff4f535f70 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/39562a56cdb515f6635c3e7bfe6629439b18a169 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d2adcd022baade5cab65ca492ce63421ce3a6e commit
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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-93794 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: smb/client: flush dirty data before punching a hole
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
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Exploit prediction
0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/0c9fcab9bf1ef3516983f3de05a19c5658c7a01e
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/216e469586057c29409e4ef8311d282388c6e251
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/6c265aca08155e519a8f6f6071c59dff4f535f70
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/39562a56cdb515f6635c3e7bfe6629439b18a169
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d7d2adcd022baade5cab65ca492ce63421ce3a6e
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-93794
- NVD CVE-2026-93794
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