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CVE-2026-99101EUVD-2026-112001

ntfs: move attribute payload before shrinking its record

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 7.2.13
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The Linux kernel's NTFS filesystem driver (ntfs) is affected. When certain attribute-state changes shrink a file's record, the driver can corrupt the on-disk mapping data, so re-enabling compression on an empty file can leave the filesystem malformed and flagged as damaged by ntfsck.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: move attribute payload before shrinking its record ntfs_new_attr_flags() resizes the non-resident attribute record before moving its name and mapping pairs to their shorter-header offsets when compression or sparse state is cleared. Shrinking the record first moves the following attribute over the tail of the old record. The subsequent memmove() therefore copies bytes from that following attribute instead of the old mapping pairs. Re-enabling compression on an empty file persists those bytes as a malformed mapping pairs array, which ntfsck reports as a missing or invalid run length. Move the payload before shrinking the record, while retaining the existing resize-before-move ordering when growing it.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    fixed in 7.2.13

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

References 2

git.kernel.org