fs/ntfs3: validate ef->size covers the record's name and value (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89779
CRITICAL 9.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.70 % · percentile 53 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: validate ef->size covers the record's name and value When an EA record has a non-zero ef->size, ntfs_read_ea() only checks that the record fits in the remaining buffer (ea_size > bytes), not that ef->size is large enough to hold the record's own name_len + 1 + elength. A crafted image can pass validation with, e.g., ef->size = 24 but elength = 0xffff. ntfs_get_ea() then trusts elength and copies it out of the undersized record, reading past the kmalloc(info->size) allocation and leaking heap memory to userspace via getxattr(): BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302) Read of size 65535 at addr ffff888100794550 by task exploit __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105) ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302) ntfs_getxattr (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:848) __vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:441) vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:474) do_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:800) path_getxattrat (fs/xattr.c:868) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of allocated 84-byte region in cache kmalloc-96 Compute the size the record needs and require ef->size to cover it.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 333feb7ba84f69f9b423422417aaac54fd9e7c84 < b27e68ad818a4ca2cef8f35f97e75d756714c818 ; affected 000a9a72efa4a9df289bab9c9e8ba1639c72e0d6 < 28a924c7e67e6d71abeb04860b61166fecb027fc ; affected 0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b < d585ed08308909c7e6fefb4e8a258aeb29b19ff9 ; affected 0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b < 077df8464cf24f8ffc82fb6efec2ae600686e699 ; affected 0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b < aab1880058ac767d3ea9388a9a7221c776c22c44 ; affected 0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b < c8a109c9e23a2c7fd548473dde728b2cb8188146
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.2 ; unaffected 0 < 6.2 ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.110 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD