CVE-2026-72201

ntfs: validate index entries on reading

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Aug 15, 2026
Updated: Aug 18, 2026
Reserved: Aug 9, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: validate index entries on reading

Validate index entries immediately after reading an index root or index block from disk. This eliminates repeated checks in lookup and readdir, and reduce the risk of missing checks in those paths.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	0a8ac0c1fa0b99a5b29002bc7f232ed7eafddef0 to before e2b95d3adb558ddd5685f9e072ec8661d57ee3a9Affected 0a8ac0c1fa0b99a5b29002bc7f232ed7eafddef0 to before 2221b691d7b2e17f08153f95848dacaa5d87e21dAffected
LinuxLinux	7.1Affected before 7.1Not affected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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