FKIE_CVE-2026-92487
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-17 17:17 - Updated: 2026-09-17 17:17
Severity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
exfat: fix valid_size extension over a shared writable mapping
When a shared writable mapping has its valid_size extended by a buffered
write or a page fault, exfat zeroes the page-cache gap below the new
valid_size. A store through the mapping can race with this zeroing and be
overwritten.
Fix this by zeroing the gap lazily. Drop ->map_pages so that every first
write fault goes through exfat_page_mkwrite(), which advances valid_size to
cover the faulting page. With fault-around enabled, a store could install a
writable PTE, skip ->page_mkwrite(), and land past valid_size without
advancing it. Extending valid_size one faulting page at a time also leaves
never-written pages in a large mapping alone.
The gap is filled with block granularity, zeroing only the not-uptodate
blocks and preserving blocks that may hold data stored through the mapping.
On the buffered-write path the invalidate lock is held and the gap is
unmapped before zeroing, so a racing store re-faults and, under the inode
lock, completes only after the gap has been zeroed and valid_size covers
it.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|
{
"affected": [
{
"affectedData": [
{
"defaultStatus": "unaffected",
"product": "Linux",
"programFiles": [
"fs/exfat/exfat_fs.h",
"fs/exfat/file.c",
"fs/exfat/iomap.c"
],
"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
"vendor": "Linux",
"versions": [
{
"lessThan": "24f20986b253c3e4eb13ebe3c2007d1d352408a6",
"status": "affected",
"version": "82a81a7352bcf5f2756ac33d47ee0582737e9a85",
"versionType": "git"
},
{
"lessThan": "1135704ed22f54873eb0498a232611d9eca30dd4",
"status": "affected",
"version": "82a81a7352bcf5f2756ac33d47ee0582737e9a85",
"versionType": "git"
}
]
},
{
"defaultStatus": "affected",
"product": "Linux",
"programFiles": [
"fs/exfat/exfat_fs.h",
"fs/exfat/file.c",
"fs/exfat/iomap.c"
],
"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
"vendor": "Linux",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "7.2"
},
{
"lessThan": "7.2",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "0",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "7.2.6",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "7.3-rc1",
"versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
}
]
}
],
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"
}
],
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexfat: fix valid_size extension over a shared writable mapping\n\nWhen a shared writable mapping has its valid_size extended by a buffered\nwrite or a page fault, exfat zeroes the page-cache gap below the new\nvalid_size. A store through the mapping can race with this zeroing and be\noverwritten.\n\nFix this by zeroing the gap lazily. Drop -\u003emap_pages so that every first\nwrite fault goes through exfat_page_mkwrite(), which advances valid_size to\ncover the faulting page. With fault-around enabled, a store could install a\nwritable PTE, skip -\u003epage_mkwrite(), and land past valid_size without\nadvancing it. Extending valid_size one faulting page at a time also leaves\nnever-written pages in a large mapping alone.\n\nThe gap is filled with block granularity, zeroing only the not-uptodate\nblocks and preserving blocks that may hold data stored through the mapping.\nOn the buffered-write path the invalidate lock is held and the gap is\nunmapped before zeroing, so a racing store re-faults and, under the inode\nlock, completes only after the gap has been zeroed and valid_size covers\nit."
}
],
"id": "CVE-2026-92487",
"lastModified": "2026-09-17T17:17:50.800",
"metrics": {},
"published": "2026-09-17T17:17:50.800",
"references": [
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1135704ed22f54873eb0498a232611d9eca30dd4"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24f20986b253c3e4eb13ebe3c2007d1d352408a6"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"vulnStatus": "Received"
}
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