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            "fs/ntfs/super.c"
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            "fs/ntfs/super.c"
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          "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
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          "versions": [
            {
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "7.1"
            },
            {
              "lessThan": "7.1",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "0",
              "versionType": "semver"
            },
            {
              "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "7.2.7",
              "versionType": "semver"
            },
            {
              "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "7.3",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "cpeApplicability": [
        {
          "nodes": [
            {
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                  "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                  "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.7",
                  "versionStartIncluding": "7.1",
                  "vulnerable": true
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      "descriptions": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: bound $AttrDef table walk to the loaded table size\n\nntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef() walks the in-memory $AttrDef table, but the\nloop condition bounds only the start of each entry, not the whole entry:\n\n\tfor (ad = vol-\u003eattrdef; (u8 *)ad - (u8 *)vol-\u003eattrdef \u003c\n\t\t\tvol-\u003eattrdef_size \u0026\u0026 ad-\u003etype; ++ad)\n\nstruct attr_def is 160 bytes; the guard reads ad-\u003etype at offset 128 and\nthe loop body reads further fields. vol-\u003eattrdef is kvzalloc(i_size),\nwhere i_size is the on-disk $AttrDef data size, checked in\nload_and_init_attrdef() only as 0 \u003c i_size \u003c= 0x7fffffff. A volume whose\n$AttrDef data size is smaller than one entry (e.g. 120 bytes) makes the\nread of ad-\u003etype run past the allocation. Creating a file reaches this\nthrough ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check() and reads out of bounds:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef+0x66/0xa0\n  Read of size 4 at addr ffff888005833280 by task init/1\n   ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef\n   ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check\n   ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident\n   ntfs_attr_add\n\nRequire the whole entry to lie within attrdef_size in the loop guard, and\nreject at mount a $AttrDef too small to hold one attr_def entry."
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        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:14:30.051Z",
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        "shortName": "Linux"
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e2ae47b8ebc632c27e7843a4632d9a7c060885e"
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8504fc1245f5322af5fa5c325ab05f9cf792b87"
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    "assignerShortName": "Linux",
    "cveId": "CVE-2026-98136",
    "datePublished": "2026-09-25T10:36:14.106Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.319Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:14:30.051Z",
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