CVE-2026-72194: critical vulnerability in Linux
fs/ntfs3: add depth limit to indx_find_buffer to prevent stack overflow
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 0.8%
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: add depth limit to indx_find_buffer to prevent stack overflow
indx_find_buffer() recursively descends the B+ tree index with no depth
limit. A crafted NTFS image with circular index node references causes
unbounded recursion, overflowing the kernel stack and panicking the
system.
This is reachable by mounting a malicious NTFS filesystem (e.g. from a
USB drive via desktop automount) and deleting a file whose index entry
triggers the rebalancing fallback path in indx_delete_entry().
Add a depth parameter and bail out with -EINVAL when it reaches the
fnd->nodes array bound, matching the constraint already enforced by
fnd_push() in indx_find().
The related function indx_find() was previously patched for a similar
infinite-loop issue (commit 1732053c8a6b), but indx_find_buffer() was
missed.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ebd684b8f627f75bc3e03f8b2ad8400fd1f02cdhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65357a81f64cb3fbe13b4b937586755e4b3a072fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78612f478f9fadcec4f9b3b089970da67ffb47e9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/908c9243ba309997b73cbda3e4c563d0fb345ee9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fb64f9da86fd2dbd78fbe9d9e41ae27e12ce34https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99031d4f63c785d2a985b6a4c64c4256f7117052https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdf50c788e0991e42a187ff75479a0df7fb752f1