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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43245"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:37.602Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:26:50.510Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43245"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43245.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43245"
title: "ntfs: -\u003ed_compare() must not block"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: -\u003ed_compare() must not block\n\n... so don't use __getname() there.  Switch it (and ntfs_d_hash(), while\nwe are at it) to kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_NOWAIT).  Yes, ntfs_d_hash()\nalmost certainly can do with smaller allocations, but let ntfs folks\ndeal with that - keep the allocation size as-is for now.\n\nStop abusing names_cachep in ntfs, period - various uses of that thing\nin there have nothing to do with pathnames; just use k[mz]alloc() and\nbe done with that.  For now let's keep sizes as-in, but AFAICS none of\nthe users actually want PATH_MAX."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02ecc0978c459fd90bb24b2a946dd16d43e68fe5"},{"version":"a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1be7ca86ce1794d966fda5d82181bc978b150fbc"},{"version":"a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"142c444a395f4d26055c8a4473e228bb86283f1e"},{"version":"a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb4b1f969ba01fa1d4088467a02fc1e5f0806710"},{"version":"a3a956c78efaa202b1d75190136671cf6e87bfbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca2a04e84af79596e5cd9cfe697d5122ec39c8ce"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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