# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31716"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T13:56:11.263Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:24:47.538Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31716"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31716.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31716"
title: "fs/ntfs3: validate rec-\u003eused in journal-replay file record check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: validate rec-\u003eused in journal-replay file record check\n\ncheck_file_record() validates rec-\u003etotal against the record size but\nnever validates rec-\u003eused.  The do_action() journal-replay handlers read\nrec-\u003eused from disk and use it to compute memmove lengths:\n\n  DeleteAttribute:    memmove(attr, ..., used - asize - roff)\n  CreateAttribute:    memmove(..., attr, used - roff)\n  change_attr_size:   memmove(..., used - PtrOffset(rec, next))\n\nWhen rec-\u003eused is smaller than the offset of a validated attribute, or\nlarger than the record size, these subtractions can underflow allowing\nus to copy huge amounts of memory in to a 4kb buffer, generally\nconsidered a bad idea overall.\n\nThis requires a corrupted filesystem, which isn't a threat model the\nkernel really needs to worry about, but checking for such an obvious\nout-of-bounds value is good to keep things robust, especially on journal\nreplay\n\nFix this up by bounding rec-\u003eused correctly.\n\nThis is much like commit b2bc7c44ed17 (\"fs/ntfs3: Fix slab-out-of-bounds\nread in DeleteIndexEntryRoot\") which checked different values in this\nsame switch statement."
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