In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: bound attr_off in UpdateResidentValue against data_off In…
CVE-2026-72195 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 5.15
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: bound attr_off in UpdateResidentValue against data_off
In do_action()'s UpdateResidentValue case (fslog.c:3307),
lrh->attr_off and lrh->redo_len come from the on-disk LRH.
When they satisfy aoff + dlen < attr->res.data_off, the
assignment
attr->res.data_size = cpu_to_le32(aoff + dlen - data_off);
underflows to ~4 GiB (e.g. 0xFFFFFFF9 when aoff=0x10, dlen=1,
data_off=0x18). Subsequent code that reads attr->res.data_size
to walk the resident attribute payload would then read up to
4 GiB past the 1024-byte MFT record allocation.
The existing mi_enum_attr() defense in fs/ntfs3/record.c:287
catches the corrupted data_size on the next attribute walk
and fails the mount, but only on the path that walks all
attributes. A read site that picks an attribute by name and
reads its data_size without re-validating is not covered.
Validate aoff against data_off and asize at the source.
Reproduced under UML+KASAN on mainline 8d90b09e6741 via
pr_warn-only probe: with aoff=0x10 and data_off=0x18, the
post-assignment data_size is 0xfffffff9 (mount then fails
at -22 from mi_enum_attr).
[almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: clang-formatted the changes]
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/50b5e83384e7fed3d11d18b79ff350e9d6d89861
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/53c12f178f584dc5f836ffe2782138a6e9348ed9
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/546518468e6c9ea469669eef78f8cc380ad6e2ca
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/97758fd9756b5f09e9ddc6a5f6a569041acc8421
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a89c66674283a0293c0f266dc57087a6114371a3
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab8761676d638c5be170aaf91b7ffdd451236616
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1570c48f49a693974d000251030370ee2e83539
Merged from NVD. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON