CVE-2026-43245 (GCVE-0-2026-43245)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:28 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:26
VLAI
Title
ntfs: ->d_compare() must not block
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: ->d_compare() must not block ... so don't use __getname() there. Switch it (and ntfs_d_hash(), while we are at it) to kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_NOWAIT). Yes, ntfs_d_hash() almost certainly can do with smaller allocations, but let ntfs folks deal with that - keep the allocation size as-is for now. Stop abusing names_cachep in ntfs, period - various uses of that thing in there have nothing to do with pathnames; just use k[mz]alloc() and be done with that. For now let's keep sizes as-in, but AFAICS none of the users actually want PATH_MAX.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe , < 02ecc0978c459fd90bb24b2a946dd16d43e68fe5 (git)
Affected: a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe , < 1be7ca86ce1794d966fda5d82181bc978b150fbc (git)
Affected: a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe , < 142c444a395f4d26055c8a4473e228bb86283f1e (git)
Affected: a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe , < fb4b1f969ba01fa1d4088467a02fc1e5f0806710 (git)
Affected: a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe , < ca2a04e84af79596e5cd9cfe697d5122ec39c8ce (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.141 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.91 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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