CVE-2026-98117 PUBLISHED

cachefiles: Fix potential UAF/KASAN warning

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 229105e5cfd9832a9ef1368c96e0098ec3a5fbf0 to 68d459e6e609c31f96a203dd6eec60c634f155e1 (excl.)
  • affected from 229105e5cfd9832a9ef1368c96e0098ec3a5fbf0 to 93488ea378b4427598cace558236c110515d743b (excl.)
  • affected from 229105e5cfd9832a9ef1368c96e0098ec3a5fbf0 to a67632c8c2688d6e0091529bcefe54bc5ee80e9b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.14 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.14 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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