{"id":6828,"date":"2026-09-04T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-72197"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:49:18","slug":"cve-2026-72197","status":"publish","type":"vuln","link":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-72197","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-72197 [HIGH] &#8211; In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs\/ntfs3: bound Delet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>fs\/ntfs3: bound DeleteIndexEntryAllocation memmove length<\/p>\n<p>In do_action()&#8217;s DeleteIndexEntryAllocation case, e-&gt;size comes<br \/>\nfrom an on-disk INDEX_BUFFER entry.  When e-&gt;size makes<br \/>\ne + e-&gt;size point past hdr + hdr-&gt;used,<br \/>\nPtrOffset(e1, Add2Ptr(hdr, used)) returns a negative ptrdiff_t<br \/>\nthat is silently cast to a quasi-infinite size_t when passed<br \/>\nto memmove().  The memmove then walks past the destination<br \/>\nbuffer.<\/p>\n<p>The sibling DeleteIndexEntryRoot case at fslog.c:3540-3543<br \/>\nalready carries the corresponding guard:<\/p>\n<p>\tif (PtrOffset(e1, Add2Ptr(hdr, used))  Add2Ptr(lrh, rec_len) ||<br \/>\n\t    used + esize &gt; le32_to_cpu(hdr-&gt;total)) {<br \/>\n\t\tgoto dirty_vol;<br \/>\n\t}<\/p>\n<p>Apply the same shape to the allocation-path case.  Also reject<br \/>\nesize == 0: memmove(e, e, &#8230;) is a no-op and leaves<br \/>\nhdr-&gt;used unchanged, hiding a malformed entry from the<br \/>\nexisting check_index_header() walk.<\/p>\n<p>Reproduced under UML+KASAN on mainline 8d90b09e6741 by<br \/>\nmounting a crafted NTFS image: the unguarded memmove takes a<br \/>\nlength of 0xffffffffffffff00 and the kernel oopses in<br \/>\nmemmove+0x81\/0x1a0 on the do_action+0x36a2 frame.<\/p>\n<p>[almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: clang-formatted the changes]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>fs\/ntfs3: bound DeleteIndexEntryAllocation memmove length<\/p>\n<p>In do_action()&#8217;s DeleteIndexEntryAllocation case, e-&gt;size comes<br \/>\nfrom an <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6828","vuln","type-vuln","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln\/6828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/vuln"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}