CVE-2026-90118

ntfs: fix off-by-one page overflow in ntfs_decompress()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

ntfs: fix off-by-one page overflow in ntfs_decompress()

The per-token range check in ntfs_decompress() uses

if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dp_addr > dp_sb_end) break;

so dp_addr == dp_sb_end falls through to the symbol copy `*dp_addr++ = *cb++`, writing one byte past the destination page. Since NTFS_SB_SIZE == PAGE_SIZE the destination is a single page, so the byte lands in the adjacent page, and *dest_ofs is left one past the sub-block end (the later `*dest_ofs &= ~PAGE_MASK` then yields 1, not 0, so the page is never finalized and later sub-blocks keep writing further past it). A corrupted compressed $DATA attribute thus produces a bounded run of out-of-bounds writes when the file is read.

Break as soon as dp_addr reaches dp_sb_end; a full sub-block still completes, as its final copy advances dp_addr to exactly dp_sb_end.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669 to before b42644e425fed4a5cd6c88372655da5c1b52c666Affected
  • 1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669 to before 98716c9fce21f6c8a9d71e08cf53e7504fa562f4Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.1Affected
  • before 7.1Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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