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GHSA-VQW4-MMGX-M8XP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-17 06:33

Details

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

ntfs: not change 0-byte $DATA attribute to non-resident

When ntfs_resident_attr_resize() cannot grow a resident attribute in place, it retries after converting other resident attributes to non-resident to free space in the MFT recrord.

Do not select zero-length resident $DATA attributes for this conversion. fsck treats 0-byte non-resident $DATA attribute as corruptions.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-72207 (GCVE-0-2026-72207)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-18 06:56

Title

ntfs: not change 0-byte $DATA attribute to non-resident

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: not change 0-byte $DATA attribute to non-resident When ntfs_resident_attr_resize() cannot grow a resident attribute in place, it retries after converting other resident attributes to non-resident to free space in the MFT recrord. Do not select zero-length resident $DATA attributes for this conversion. fsck treats 0-byte non-resident $DATA attribute as corruptions.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceb49c37250125d41…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0aad21570197973af…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 495e90fa334828d4119061e2726af51d0a0fb4ed , < ceb49c37250125d418410988f2376ed4d57a6706 (git) Affected: 495e90fa334828d4119061e2726af51d0a0fb4ed , < 0aad21570197973af4a1b25b3fb8ed3aeb9e7670 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7.1 Unaffected: 0 , < 7.1 (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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