UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-98117
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix potential UAF/KASAN warning Currently, trace_cachefiles_coherency() is bei
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cachefiles: Fix potential UAF/KASAN warning
Currently, trace_cachefiles_coherency() is being passed a pointer to a
__be64 lain over the coherency data in struct cachefiles_xattr so that it
can display the first 8 bytes. However, the data is of variable length and
could even be 0 bytes. This could lead to a UAF or KASAN warning.
Fix this by making sure the buffer has room for at least 8 bytes and that
those 8 bytes are pre-cleared.
Further, those bytes are not 8-byte aligned, so fix the tracepoint to
extract the data as four 2-byte words (they are 2-byte aligned) and
reassemble the __be64. The compiler will convert this into a single 8-byte
load where the CPU supports it.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68d459e6e609c31f96a203dd6eec60c634f155e1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93488ea378b4427598cace558236c110515d743b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a67632c8c2688d6e0091529bcefe54bc5ee80e9b
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-25 via NVD.
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