CVE-2026-98136

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98136
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98136.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98136
Downstream
Published
2026-09-25T10:36:14Z
Modified
2026-09-26T03:48:33Z
Summary
ntfs: bound $AttrDef table walk to the loaded table size
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98136.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669
Fixed
3e2ae47b8ebc632c27e7843a4632d9a7c060885e
Fixed
c8504fc1245f5322af5fa5c325ab05f9cf792b87

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98136.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.1.0
Fixed
7.2.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98136.json"