{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-98137","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-09-25T10:25:14.319Z","datePublished":"2026-09-25T10:36:14.744Z","dateUpdated":"2026-09-25T10:36:14.744Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-09-25T10:36:14.744Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: treat any nonzero dio zero-range return as an error\n\nntfs_dio_zero_range() returns either 0 or a negative errno from\nblkdev_issue_zeroout(); it never returns a positive value.  The\nzeroing failure check in ntfs_attr_fallocate() therefore never fired,\nso a failed zeroing operation was silently ignored: the loop kept\ngoing, the newly allocated clusters were folded into initialized_size\nand the write could succeed leaving stale on-disk data.\n\nTreat any nonzero return as an error and abort the allocation."}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["fs/ntfs/attrib.c"],"versions":[{"version":"495e90fa334828d4119061e2726af51d0a0fb4ed","lessThan":"56392b0d5290ff2b05fc673bc07803b8ae4cfd1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"495e90fa334828d4119061e2726af51d0a0fb4ed","lessThan":"607a9478833db656e7ceac8e9e382fa4acfde545","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["fs/ntfs/attrib.c"],"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.7","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3-rc2","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"7.1","versionEndExcluding":"7.2.7"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"7.1","versionEndExcluding":"7.3-rc2"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56392b0d5290ff2b05fc673bc07803b8ae4cfd1b"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/607a9478833db656e7ceac8e9e382fa4acfde545"}],"title":"ntfs: treat any nonzero dio zero-range return as an error","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}