CVE-2026-89781 (GCVE-0-2026-89781)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-16 08:48
Modified
2026-10-19 08:52
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: fix out-of-bounds read in read_log_rec_buf() read_log_rec_buf() copies a log record into a caller buffer starting at u32 off = lsn_to_page_off(log, lsn) + log->record_header_len; log->record_header_len (and log->data_off, used for the following pages) comes verbatim from the on-disk restart area and is only checked for 8-byte alignment in is_rst_area_valid(), so off can exceed log->page_size. "tail = log->page_size - off" then underflows and memcpy() reads past the page_size-sized buffer returned by read_log_page(), spilling adjacent slab memory into the replay buffer. This is reachable by mounting a crafted NTFS image: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in read_log_rec_buf+0x216/0x580 Read of size 64 at addr ffff88800a877ff8 by task exploit/127 read_log_rec_buf fs/ntfs3/fslog.c:2299 log_replay fs/ntfs3/fslog.c:4216 ntfs_loadlog_and_replay fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c:324 ntfs_fill_super fs/ntfs3/super.c:1392 get_tree_bdev_flags fs/super.c:1694 __x64_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4360 The buggy address is located 4088 bytes to the right of the 4096-byte region [ffff88800a876000, ffff88800a877000) Reject an in-page offset outside the current page before the copy. [almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: replaced the >= sign with >]
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Linux Linux Version: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: fix out-of-bounds read in read_log_rec_buf()\n\nread_log_rec_buf() copies a log record into a caller buffer starting at\n\n\tu32 off = lsn_to_page_off(log, lsn) + log-\u003erecord_header_len;\n\nlog-\u003erecord_header_len (and log-\u003edata_off, used for the following pages)\ncomes verbatim from the on-disk restart area and is only checked for\n8-byte alignment in is_rst_area_valid(), so off can exceed\nlog-\u003epage_size. \"tail = log-\u003epage_size - off\" then underflows and\nmemcpy() reads past the page_size-sized buffer returned by\nread_log_page(), spilling adjacent slab memory into the replay buffer.\n\nThis is reachable by mounting a crafted NTFS image:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in read_log_rec_buf+0x216/0x580\n Read of size 64 at addr ffff88800a877ff8 by task exploit/127\n  read_log_rec_buf fs/ntfs3/fslog.c:2299\n  log_replay fs/ntfs3/fslog.c:4216\n  ntfs_loadlog_and_replay fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c:324\n  ntfs_fill_super fs/ntfs3/super.c:1392\n  get_tree_bdev_flags fs/super.c:1694\n  __x64_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4360\n The buggy address is located 4088 bytes to the right of\n the 4096-byte region [ffff88800a876000, ffff88800a877000)\n\nReject an in-page offset outside the current page before the copy.\n\n[almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: replaced the \u003e= sign with \u003e]"
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