CVE-2026-89613 (GCVE-0-2026-89613)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-11 19:45
Modified
2026-10-19 08:49
Severity ?
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 11ccc9107dc460de28af90fac1f42404d9802735
Version: 11ccc9107dc460de28af90fac1f42404d9802735
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              "value": "AV:N - fs/ntfs registers ntfs_export_ops, so nfsd/ksmbd VFS reads on an exported NTFS volume reach ntfs_map_runlist()-\u003entfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() for crafted on-disk mapping pairs without local shell access.\nAC:L - The attacker fully controls the empty mapping-pairs terminator, lowest/highest VCN, and allocated/data/initialized sizes; decompressing that attribute and merging the resulting degenerate runlist is deterministic with no race or victim-specific layout.\nPR:N - Triggering the decoder needs only permission to cause server-side parsing of mounted NTFS metadata (guest/anonymous SMB or a permissive NFS export, or an unprivileged open/read on an already-mounted volume), not init-namespace root or CAP_SYS_ADMIN at trigger time.\nUI:N - After the crafted volume is mounted and exported, ordinary remote or local reads decompress the invalid empty mapping pairs and enter the merge path; no extra victim mount dialog, USB insertion, or confirmation is required during the attack.\nS:U - Heap corruption of the in-memory runlist and subsequent misdirected cluster I/O remain in the host kernel security domain and do not cross a VM, container, or IOMMU boundary to another authority.\nC:H - Merging the degenerate unmapped runlist computes a negative source size and indexes src+ssize-1 / dst[marker] outside the allocation, an unbounded kernel heap out-of-bounds read that can disclose adjacent objects.\nI:H - The same merge performs out-of-bounds runlist writes via marker/loc arithmetic with ssize\u003c0 and later I/O using corrupted VCN/LCN mappings, a kernel heap write primitive sufficient for control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - WARN_ON on an entirely unmapped source runlist, heap out-of-bounds access, and corrupted runlist walks oops or panic the kernel, fully denying availability even when exploitation is not completed."
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    "dateReserved": "2026-09-11T19:38:34.735Z",
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