GHSA-v9qj-wpxr-47gcCriticalCVSS 9.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: reject invalid MFT...

Published
September 11, 2026
Last Modified
September 13, 2026

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📋 Description

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

ntfs: reject invalid MFT LCNs from boot sector

The NTFS boot sector stores the MFT and MFTMirr locations as unsigned 64-bit LCNs, but parse_ntfs_boot_sector() decoded them into an s64.

A crafted high-bit value could therefore become negative and pass the existing upper-bound check. The invalid value then propagated into the MFT zone allocator and could result in an out-of-bounds access to lcn_empty_bits_per_page.

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