fs/ntfs3: bound attr_off in UpdateResidentValue against data_off
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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). [[email protected]: clang-formatted the changes]
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72195
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-44j2-h353-38w7
- 2026-10-16 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab8761676d638c5be170aaf91b7ffdd451236616
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53c12f178f584dc5f836ffe2782138a6e9348ed9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/546518468e6c9ea469669eef78f8cc380ad6e2ca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97758fd9756b5f09e9ddc6a5f6a569041acc8421
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50b5e83384e7fed3d11d18b79ff350e9d6d89861
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a89c66674283a0293c0f266dc57087a6114371a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1570c48f49a693974d000251030370ee2e83539
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Sources
- CVE-2026-72195 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-72195 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-44j2-h353-38w7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-72195 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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