CVE-2026-72208

ntfs: add bounds check before accessing EA entries

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: add bounds check before accessing EA entries

in ntfs_ea_lookup and ntfs_listxattr, this verifies that there is enough space in the EA entry before accessing the next_entry_offset field of the EA entry.

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	c451d34ae14201c2bb40652bf74072a79ff82f7d to before d9d9925de1d8f233cc60d3dc356e12f232f97c15Affected c451d34ae14201c2bb40652bf74072a79ff82f7d to before 937282f7d15b593d0be765fa2ced164130ec87f7Affected
LinuxLinux	7.1Affected before 7.1Not affected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected 7.2 and laterNot affected

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