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CVE-2026-72478

fs/ntfs3: add bounds check to run_get_highest_vcn()

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 5.16, and 2 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: add bounds check to run_get_highest_vcn() run_get_highest_vcn() parses a packed NTFS mapping-pairs buffer without any length bound, relying solely on a 0x00 terminator to stop. A crafted $LogFile UpdateMappingPairs record whose embedded attribute contains mapping-pairs runs without a terminator causes the function to read past the slab allocation, triggering a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read on mount. The sibling function run_unpack() received an analogous bounds-check in commit b62567bca474 ("ntfs3: add buffer boundary checks to run_unpack()"), but run_get_highest_vcn() was missed. Take a run_buf_size parameter and reject any run header whose payload would extend past the buffer end, mirroring the pattern used by run_unpack(). The caller in fslog.c passes the remaining attribute bytes after the mapping-pairs offset. KASAN report (on mainline v7.1 merge window HEAD): BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in run_get_highest_vcn+0x3c0/0x410 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88800e2d5400 by task mount/72 Call Trace: run_get_highest_vcn+0x3c0/0x410 do_action.isra.0+0x3ba8/0x7b50 log_replay+0x9ddd/0x10200 ntfs_loadlog_and_replay+0x4ad/0x610 ntfs_fill_super+0x214a/0x4540

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 425de2aba0d061b3e715d51a3b1992c112ed5b99 · fixed in c69b9003332917b652175d5fa9d84158c5ed8617; From bf7ac4a1d3bfc6e56e54635c3d331a68170d37c9 · fixed in 8afc24a884aff6a6f08028bd779ee65c40054455; From e64f7dfcaff79e7dfff9121a382dd77f9b462f62 · fixed in c23083b472a720c3f60b147db05b25b751c7c1bf; From d3012690a7065d9ca86521a525ad11e8af491d45 · fixed in a31893206588374d7d16fad387189d8165c7efd3; From b62567bca47408e6739dee75f02a2113548af875 · fixed in 41081202eb823f5b27ff164b12010b24428100ad; From b62567bca47408e6739dee75f02a2113548af875 · fixed in bb11485a87fbb2254b62cfed630b699d50e57da8; From 6.1.175 · fixed in 6.1.178; From 6.6.140 · fixed in 6.6.145; From 6.12.86 · fixed in 6.12.97; From 6.18.27 · fixed in 6.18.40; From 5.15.209 · fixed in 5.16; From 7.0.4 · fixed in 7.1

  • Linux Linux

    7.1

  • KernelLinux

    fixed in 6.1.178; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.145; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.97; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.40; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.1.5

References 6

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