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CVE-2026-98136
Linux Linux — ntfs: bound $AttrDef table walk to the loaded table size
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H N H 7.1 .0011 1.2 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669 – —
Linux 7.1 – 7.2.7
TIMELINE
Sep 25 Reserved by Linux
Sep 25 Published (CNA: Linux)
Oct 8 ENRICHED — CVE-2026-98136 (Linux). Received CVSS 7.1 and CPE data from NVD.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ntfs: bound $AttrDef table walk to the loaded table size
ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef() walks the in-memory $AttrDef table, but the
loop condition bounds only the start of each entry, not the whole entry:
for (ad = vol->attrdef; (u8 *)ad - (u8 *)vol->attrdef <
vol->attrdef_size && ad->type; ++ad)
struct attr_def is 160 bytes; the guard reads ad->type at offset 128 and
the loop body reads further fields. vol->attrdef is kvzalloc(i_size),
where i_size is the on-disk $AttrDef data size, checked in
load_and_init_attrdef() only as 0 < i_size <= 0x7fffffff. A volume whose
$AttrDef data size is smaller than one entry (e.g. 120 bytes) makes the
read of ad->type run past the allocation. Creating a file reaches this
through ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check() and reads out of bounds:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef+0x66/0xa0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888005833280 by task init/1
ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef
ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check
ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident
ntfs_attr_add
Require the whole entry to lie within attrdef_size in the loop guard, and
reject at mount a $AttrDef too small to hold one attr_def entry.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| September 25, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| September 25, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| October 8, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2026-98136 (Linux). Received CVSS 7.1 and CPE data from NVD. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 7.1 | 7.2.7 |
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