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Linux CVE-2026-90118

| EUVDEUVD-2026-81711
2026-09-17 Linux GHSA-fvx8-6m5h-cx99

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Sep 17, 2026 - 17:19 EUVD
CVE Published
Sep 17, 2026 - 16:06 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

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

ntfs: fix off-by-one page overflow in ntfs_decompress()

The per-token range check in ntfs_decompress() uses

if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dp_addr > dp_sb_end) break;

so dp_addr dp_sb_end falls through to the symbol copy *dp_addr++ = *cb++, writing one byte past the destination page. Since NTFS_SB_SIZE PAGE_SIZE the destination is a single page, so the byte lands in the adjacent page, and *dest_ofs is left one past the sub-block end (the later *dest_ofs &= ~PAGE_MASK then yields 1, not 0, so the page is never finalized and later sub-blocks keep writing further past it). A corrupted compressed $DATA attribute thus produces a bounded run of out-of-bounds writes when the file is read.

Break as soon as dp_addr reaches dp_sb_end; a full sub-block still completes, as its final copy advances dp_addr to exactly dp_sb_end.

Analysis

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: fix off-by-one page overflow in ntfs_decompress() The per-token range check in ntfs_decompress() uses if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dp_addr > dp_sb_end) break; so dp_addr == dp_sb_end falls through to the symbol copy *dp_addr++ = *cb++, writing one byte past the destination page. Since NTFS_SB_SIZE == PAGE_SIZE the destination is a single page, so the byte lands in the adjacent page, and *dest_ofs is left one past the sub-block end (the later *dest_ofs &= ~PAGE_MASK then yields 1, not 0, so the page is never finalized and later sub-blocks keep writing further past it). …

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