CVE-2026-74570 (GCVE-0-2026-74570)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 12:28
Modified
2026-08-17 05:48
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ntfs: harden runlist realloc size calculations
Add a shared helper to safely convert runlist element counts to byte sizes
using overflow checks, and use it in both ntfs_rl_realloc() and
ntfs_rl_realloc_nofail().
References
Impacted products
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