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CVE-2026-72184 (GCVE-0-2026-72184)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:53 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:09
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Title
ntfs: fix hole runlist memory leak in insert range error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: fix hole runlist memory leak in insert range error path ntfs_non_resident_attr_insert_range() allocates hole_rl before mapping the whole runlist. If ntfs_attr_map_whole_runlist() fails, the error path drops ni->runlist.lock and returns without freeing hole_rl. This leaks memory of sizeof(*hole_rl) * 2 bytes. Fix this memory leak by freeing hole_rl before returning from that error path, matching the later error paths in the same function.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 495e90fa334828d4119061e2726af51d0a0fb4ed , < 7d7f72cb21a829682f6d8968af4fbe413789d1fd (git)
Affected: 495e90fa334828d4119061e2726af51d0a0fb4ed , < 06769b8f23b4b645b270c438649fff79768fb6fe (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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