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Information Exposure Through Caching Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS10-KERNELDOC-20209578
  • published29 Sept 2026
  • disclosed25 Sept 2026
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Introduced: 25 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-98124  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-524  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:10 kernel-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

smb/client: invalidate fscache for fallocate range operations

smb3_zero_range(), smb3_punch_hole(), smb3_insert_range(), and smb3_collapse_range() modify file contents through server-side range operations. These operations discard the affected page cache, but leave the FS-Cache cookie valid, so a later read may return data cached before the range operation.

Fix this by invalidating FS-Cache after outstanding I/O has completed and before modifying the file on the server.

Run the following as root on a CIFS mount with fsc enabled and an active CacheFiles backend:

    bash -c '
            MNT=/mnt/cifs
            FILE="$MNT/repro"


        # Generate four 1 MiB random blocks: [A][B][C][D].
        dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/src bs=1M count=4 status=none

        # Expected contents after zeroing B: [A][zero][C][D].
        cp /tmp/src /tmp/expected
        dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/expected bs=1M seek=1 count=1 \
                conv=notrunc status=none
        cp /tmp/src "$FILE"

        # Populate FS-Cache, then discard the page cache.
        sync
        echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
        cat "$FILE" > /dev/null
        sync
        echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

        fallocate --zero-range -o 1M -l 1M "$FILE"

        if cmp -s /tmp/expected "$FILE"; then
                echo "readback: OK"
        else
                echo "readback: STALE DATA"
        fi
'

Before this change, the readback differs from /tmp/expected:

    readback: STALE DATA

After this change, it matches:

    readback: OK

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