Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.1.68,6.2)[6.6.7,6.7)[6.7,7.2.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-21244225
  • published19 Oct 2026
  • disclosed18 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-98685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.2, 6.7, 7.2.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in the cifs_remap_file_range process. An attacker can access unintended file content by extending a file via clone range, which causes data dirtied past the previous end-of-file to become visible as file content.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1