Riskcovery

CVE-2026-98141

ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure

update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of set_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes the just-written reparse data as cleanup but still returns 0, so symlink(2) (and WSL special file creation) reports success while no reparse data exists on disk. When there was no previous reparse data (oldsize == 0), the failure was likewise silently ignored.

Propagate the error to the caller.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fc053f05ca282a5e760b41f6560ac835c4e28037 to before c62f446c63398dc7151f413069bf617032cf7a71Affected
  • fc053f05ca282a5e760b41f6560ac835c4e28037 to before 9692b1b4fc00cf89628bc43f71729ab21f14f8d3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.1Affected
  • before 7.1Not affected
  • 7.2.7 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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