ntfs: bound the look-ahead attribute-list entry in ntfs_external_attr_find()
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.55% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: Linux Linux 344b18f389f9934d59c7b0cf3d20541ea2e0da58, 44885c9b45eb4082fb7f558590d84bb254a08e94.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 344b18f389f9934d59c7b0cf3d20541ea2e0da58, 44885c9b45eb4082fb7f558590d84bb254a08e94 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: bound the look-ahead attribute-list entry in ntfs_external_attr_find() When resolving an attribute lookup with a non-zero @lowest_vcn, ntfs_external_attr_find() peeks at the next $ATTRIBUTE_LIST entry to decide whether to keep searching, but bounds that not-yet-validated entry only with "(u8 *)next_al_entry + 6 < al_end" (which proves just bytes 0..6 are in range) and "(u8 *)next_al_entry + length <= al_end" with an attacker-controlled, non-8-aligned length. It then reads next_al_entry->lowest_vcn (an __le64 at offset 8) and the name at next_al_entry->name_offset, both of which can lie past al_end -- the exact end of the kvmalloc'd attribute-list buffer (allocated at the on-disk attr_list_size, no rounding). A crafted on-disk $ATTRIBUTE_LIST whose last entry sits a few bytes before al_end therefore yields a slab out-of-bounds read when the inode is read. Validate the look-ahead entry with ntfs_attr_list_entry_is_valid() (added in patch 1/3) before dereferencing lowest_vcn and the name, so the same fixed-header, length and name bounds the main attribute-list walk uses now guard this read too.
- Published
- Aug 28, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 29, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 45th percentile
- CWE
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Report tools
Action score
39
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
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- CNA · Linux
- 9.8
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Versions reported by the vendor
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Linux Linux
- 7.1affected
- 1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669 and later · before 44885c9b45eb4082fb7f558590d84bb254a08e94affected · git
- 1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669 and later · before 344b18f389f9934d59c7b0cf3d20541ea2e0da58affected · git
- before 7.1not affected · semver
- 7.1.5 and later · up to and including 7.1.*not affected · semver
- 7.2 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:14 | linux | before 7.1.5-1 | 7.1.5-1 |
Same product
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-80671Aug 28, 2026 · perf sched: Fix register_pid() overflow, strcpy, and BUG_ON37Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-80672Aug 28, 2026 · ntfs: fix u16 truncation of restart-area length check35Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-80674Aug 28, 2026 · ntfs: validate resident attribute lists and harden the validator39Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 344b18f389f9934d59c7b0cf3d20541ea2e0da58 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 44885c9b45eb4082fb7f558590d84bb254a08e94 | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:linux | 7.1.5-1 · Debian:14 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-0945 · Aug 31, 2026(Linux Kernel Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.