# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45864"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:15:43.807Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:15:43.807Z"
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-2026-45864"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45864.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45864"
title: "fs/ntfs3: prevent infinite loops caused by the next valid being the same"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: prevent infinite loops caused by the next valid being the same\n\nWhen processing valid within the range [valid : pos), if valid cannot\nbe retrieved correctly, for example, if the retrieved valid value is\nalways the same, this can trigger a potential infinite loop, similar\nto the hung problem reported by syzbot [1].\n\nAdding a check for the valid value within the loop body, and terminating\nthe loop and returning -EINVAL if the value is the same as the current\nvalue, can prevent this.\n\n[1]\nINFO: task syz.4.21:6056 blocked for more than 143 seconds.\nCall Trace:\n rwbase_write_lock+0x14f/0x750 kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c:244\n inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:1027 [inline]\n ntfs_file_write_iter+0xe6/0x870 fs/ntfs3/file.c:1284"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50c822fcb36768f1fb356f05b02a2248ef81936d"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d93239b4fc479f7c0a412dd196ec0ca2672d14a"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71c8b966ec56e13c02388c1312910588bb49be7a"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b97e371e5d1c13d722335d46eb8bc1a22b272a0e"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bf3bafb8e0635ed93e3cd4156dcbcc0fb960cb4"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a47a2bb9aa6455d5cee1045814a60c749309c92b"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27b75ca4e51e3e4554dc85dbf1a0246c66106fd3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.202","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.4","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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