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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-53023

| EUVDEUVD-2026-38891 MEDIUM
2026-06-24 Linux GHSA-fw3c-7wwh-rhhf
Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat Suse
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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5.5 MEDIUM

Local filesystem mount access required (AV:L, PR:L); no confirmed confidentiality or integrity impact; kernel OOB read drives A:H with unchanged scope.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
MEDIUM
qualitative

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CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 15, 2026 - 14:08 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 15, 2026 - 14:07 NVD
5.5 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Jun 24, 2026 - 18:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jun 24, 2026 - 16:29 nvd
MEDIUM 5.5
CVE Published
Jun 24, 2026 - 16:29 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionNVD

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: terminate the cached volume label after UTF-8 conversion

ntfs_fill_super() loads the on-disk volume label with utf16s_to_utf8s() and stores the result in sbi->volume.label. The converted label is later exposed through ntfs3_label_show() using %s, but utf16s_to_utf8s() only returns the number of bytes written and does not add a trailing NUL.

If the converted label fills the entire fixed buffer, ntfs3_label_show() can read past the end of sbi->volume.label while looking for a terminator.

Terminate the cached label explicitly after a successful conversion and clamp the exact-full case to the last byte of the buffer.

AnalysisAI

Missing NUL termination in the Linux kernel's ntfs3 filesystem driver allows a local attacker with filesystem mount privileges to trigger an out-of-bounds memory read, crashing the kernel. The defect in ntfs_fill_super() leaves sbi->volume.label unterminated when a UTF-16 volume label converts to a UTF-8 string that exactly fills the fixed buffer, causing ntfs3_label_show() to read past the buffer boundary via a %s format specifier. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS sits at 0.17% (7th percentile), indicating very low current exploitation interest despite the High availability impact in CVSS.

Technical ContextAI

The vulnerability resides in fs/ntfs3/super.c within the Linux kernel's ntfs3 driver, introduced with the ntfs3 merge at commit 82cae269cfa9. During superblock initialization, ntfs_fill_super() converts the on-disk NTFS volume label from UTF-16LE to UTF-8 using the kernel helper utf16s_to_utf8s(), which returns the byte count written but does not NUL-terminate the destination. The result is stored in sbi->volume.label, a fixed-size char array. The sysfs callback ntfs3_label_show() later exposes this label using a %s format specifier, which reads memory until a NUL byte is found. When the converted label exactly fills the buffer - leaving no room for a terminator - the read continues past the allocated buffer into adjacent kernel memory. Although no CWE was formally assigned, the root cause is conceptually CWE-170 (Improper Null Termination). The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux across multiple stable branches. The patch clamps the write to the last byte and explicitly NUL-terminates after conversion.

RemediationAI

The primary fix is to upgrade to a patched kernel version for your stable branch: 5.15.209, 6.1.175, 6.6.141, 6.12.91, 6.18.33, or 7.0.10. Upstream fix commits are available at https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b0686369e0afbb3549a0d93e2d8517da84cd30 and related branch-specific commits (bc7a0c34, 0b11fcbe, 54d564b7, 6136bbb0, 5cd0707b, a6cd43fe). Distribution maintainers for Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, and others are expected to backport these patches; consult your distribution's kernel security advisories. As a compensating control where immediate upgrade is not feasible, administrators can blacklist the ntfs3 module via /etc/modprobe.d/ (e.g., 'blacklist ntfs3'), preventing the driver from loading and eliminating the attack surface entirely - the trade-off is loss of all ntfs3 NTFS mount capability, requiring a fallback to the older ntfs driver or userspace ntfs-3g. On server systems where non-root users already lack mount privileges and no auto-mounting daemon is active, exploitation risk is already substantially contained without additional controls.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
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