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GHSA-V5R3-R9HR-Q598

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-25 12:31 – Updated: 2026-09-25 12:31

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: bound $AttrDef table walk to the loaded table size

ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef() walks the in-memory $AttrDef table, but the loop condition bounds only the start of each entry, not the whole entry:

for (ad = vol->attrdef; (u8 *)ad - (u8 *)vol->attrdef <
        vol->attrdef_size && ad->type; ++ad)

struct attr_def is 160 bytes; the guard reads ad->type at offset 128 and the loop body reads further fields. vol->attrdef is kvzalloc(i_size), where i_size is the on-disk $AttrDef data size, checked in load_and_init_attrdef() only as 0 < i_size <= 0x7fffffff. A volume whose $AttrDef data size is smaller than one entry (e.g. 120 bytes) makes the read of ad->type run past the allocation. Creating a file reaches this through ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check() and reads out of bounds:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef+0x66/0xa0 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888005833280 by task init/1 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident ntfs_attr_add

Require the whole entry to lie within attrdef_size in the loop guard, and reject at mount a $AttrDef too small to hold one attr_def entry.

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CVE-2026-98136 (GCVE-0-2026-98136)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-25 10:36 – Updated: 2026-09-25 10:36

Title

ntfs: bound $AttrDef table walk to the loaded table size

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: bound $AttrDef table walk to the loaded table size ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef() walks the in-memory $AttrDef table, but the loop condition bounds only the start of each entry, not the whole entry: for (ad = vol->attrdef; (u8 *)ad - (u8 *)vol->attrdef < vol->attrdef_size && ad->type; ++ad) struct attr_def is 160 bytes; the guard reads ad->type at offset 128 and the loop body reads further fields. vol->attrdef is kvzalloc(i_size), where i_size is the on-disk $AttrDef data size, checked in load_and_init_attrdef() only as 0 < i_size <= 0x7fffffff. A volume whose $AttrDef data size is smaller than one entry (e.g. 120 bytes) makes the read of ad->type run past the allocation. Creating a file reaches this through ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check() and reads out of bounds: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef+0x66/0xa0 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888005833280 by task init/1 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident ntfs_attr_add Require the whole entry to lie within attrdef_size in the loop guard, and reject at mount a $AttrDef too small to hold one attr_def entry.

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Assigner

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References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e2ae47b8ebc632c2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8504fc1245f5322a…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669 , < 3e2ae47b8ebc632c27e7843a4632d9a7c060885e (git) Affected: 1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669 , < c8504fc1245f5322af5fa5c325ab05f9cf792b87 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7.1 Unaffected: 0 , < 7.1 (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.7 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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