CVE-2026-89614 (GCVE-0-2026-89614)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:45 – Updated: 2026-10-19 08:49
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Title
ntfs: bound the free-cluster bitmap scan to the volume
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: bound the free-cluster bitmap scan to the volume vol->lcn_empty_bits_per_page is sized from vol->nr_clusters at mount, but ntfs_cluster_alloc() bounds its scan of that array by the size of $Bitmap. Those are independent on-disk quantities and the mount-time check only rejects a $Bitmap that is too small, so an image whose $Bitmap covers more clusters than the volume has lets the scan index past the array. A run whose LCN lies in that gap takes the allocator straight there, since the caller passes the file's own last LCN as its locality hint. KASAN reports a slab out-of-bounds read when a file on such a volume is extended. Clamp the scan to what that array covers, mirroring the max_index calculation the mount-time scan already uses, and reject a decoded LCN at or beyond nr_clusters in the mapping pairs decoder. Conforming volumes are unaffected.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6643 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 11ccc9107dc460de28af90fac1f42404d9802735 , < dc15a9f5307d5372aef3b64bf3ed7802f530c471 (git)
Affected: 11ccc9107dc460de28af90fac1f42404d9802735 , < 19cac7902a8ab748e15f98ddaafcf5f8882be21d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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