CVE-2026-31716

HIGH

fs/ntfs3: validate rec->used in journal-replay file record check

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: validate rec->used in journal-replay file record check check_file_record() validates rec->total against the record size but never validates rec->used. The do_action() journal-replay handlers read rec->used from disk and use it to compute memmove lengths: DeleteAttribute: memmove(attr, ..., used - asize - roff) CreateAttribute: memmove(..., attr, used - roff) change_attr_size: memmove(..., used - PtrOffset(rec, next)) When rec->used is smaller than the offset of a validated attribute, or larger than the record size, these subtractions can underflow allowing us to copy huge amounts of memory in to a 4kb buffer, generally considered a bad idea overall. This requires a corrupted filesystem, which isn't a threat model the kernel really needs to worry about, but checking for such an obvious out-of-bounds value is good to keep things robust, especially on journal replay Fix this up by bounding rec->used correctly. This is much like commit b2bc7c44ed17 ("fs/ntfs3: Fix slab-out-of-bounds read in DeleteIndexEntryRoot") which checked different values in this same switch statement.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (25)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 5.15.209linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.175linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.25linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.136linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.84linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.209 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.175 - 6.1.*
... and 15 more
Published May 01, 2026
Tracked Since May 01, 2026