CVE-2026-89613 (GCVE-0-2026-89613)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-11 19:45
Modified
2026-10-19 08:49
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ntfs: reject invalid empty mapping pairs
Reject an attribute with empty mapping pairs if it has inconsistent
highest VCN and size.
References
Impacted products
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