CVE-2026-72198

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-72198

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

ntfs: reject non-resident records for resident-only attributes

The shared lookup-time attribute validator rejects non-resident

$FILE_NAME and $VOLUME_NAME records because their formats require

resident values and callers handle returned records as resident

attributes. Other resident-only attribute types still pass through the

generic non-resident mapping-pairs checks.

That leaves real resident/non-resident union confusion paths. Inode load

looks up $STANDARD_INFORMATION and then reads data.resident.value_offset

without checking a->non_resident. ntfs_inode_sync_standard_information()

does the same when updating the standard information value.

ntfs_write_volume_flags() also looks up $VOLUME_INFORMATION and reads

data.resident.value_offset directly. $INDEX_ROOT callers in dir.c and

index.c depend on the same lookup contract before consuming the resident

index root value.

Reject non-resident records for all resident-only attribute types in the

shared validator. Keep the existing $FILE_NAME and $VOLUME_NAME behavior,

but factor it through a helper and extend it to

$STANDARD_INFORMATION, $OBJECT_ID, $VOLUME_INFORMATION, $INDEX_ROOT, and

$EA_INFORMATION. For $OBJECT_ID and $EA_INFORMATION this is contract

hardening for resident-only formats; this patch only rejects the

non-resident form and does not add new resident value validation for

those types. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

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