In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs3: pretend $Extend records as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in mayopen()") requires any inode be one of SIFDIR/SIFLNK/SIFREG/SIFCHR/SIFBLK/ SIFIFO/SIFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for $Extend records.