CVE-2026-90176 (GCVE-0-2026-90176)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:07
Modified
2026-10-19 08:59
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: Do not skip lock checks for single-byte ranges check_lock_range() uses inclusive ranges. Its callers pass the end offset as start + length - 1, so start == end represents a valid single-byte range rather than an empty range. The start == end shortcut therefore skips mandatory byte-range lock checks for one-byte reads, writes, copychunk operations and one-byte truncate ranges. A conflicting lock covering that byte is not checked and the operation is allowed to proceed. Remove the shortcut. The truncate size == inode->i_size case is already handled by only calling check_lock_range() when the new size differs from the current file size.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 52fcbb92e0d3acfd1448b2a43b6595d540da5295
Version: da29cd197246c85c0473259f1cad897d9d28faea
Version: a6f4cfa3783804336491e0edcb250c25f9b59d33
Version: 571204e4758a528fbd67330bd4b0dfbdafb33dd8
Version: 5d510ac31626ed157d2182149559430350cf2104
Version: 5d510ac31626ed157d2182149559430350cf2104
Version: 6.1.160   ≤
Version: 6.6.120   ≤
Version: 6.12.64   ≤
Version: 6.18.3   ≤
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