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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72193" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:53.381Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:10:01.666Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-72193" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72193.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72193" title: "ntfs3: cap RESTART_TABLE free-chain walker at rt-\u003eused" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs3: cap RESTART_TABLE free-chain walker at rt-\u003eused\n\nA crafted NTFS3 disk image triggers an in-kernel infinite loop at\nmount time, hanging the mounting thread and firing the soft-lockup\nwatchdog within ~22s on multi-CPU hosts (panic with\nkernel.softlockup_panic=1). The bug is reachable from desktop USB\nauto-mount on distributions where udisks2 routes the NTFS signature\nto the in-tree ntfs3 driver (Arch family and an increasing fraction\nof Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL deployments); CAP_SYS_ADMIN-class manual\nmount elsewhere.\n\ncheck_rstbl()'s second walker iterates the free-entry singly-linked\nlist headed by rt-\u003efirst_free with no upper bound on iteration count:\n\n for (off = ff; off;) {\n if (off == RESTART_ENTRY_ALLOCATED)\n return false;\n off = le32_to_cpu(*(__le32 *)Add2Ptr(rt, off));\n if (off \u003e ts - sizeof(__le32))\n return false;\n }\n\nThe existing guards cover three exits: end-of-list (off == 0), the\nin-use marker (off == RESTART_ENTRY_ALLOCATED), and out-of-bounds\n(off \u003e ts - sizeof(__le32)). None of the three prevents an\nin-bounds cycle.\n\nA crafted on-disk RESTART_TABLE whose free chain contains a\nself-loop or A-\u003eB-\u003eA cycle whose offsets satisfy:\n\n - in range [sizeof(struct RESTART_TABLE), ts - sizeof(__le32)]\n - (off - sizeof(struct RESTART_TABLE)) % rsize == 0\n\npasses all existing guards and spins the mount-time thread forever.\nReproduced in UML by hand-forging a 2 MB NTFS3 image whose journal\nRESTART_TABLE first_free = 0x18 and whose entry at offset 0x18\nstores 0x18 as its next pointer; mount of the forged image with\nthe in-tree ntfs3 driver never returns.\n\nBound the walker by rt-\u003eused. Each entry on a legitimate free\nchain is unique, and the total slot count is ne = le16_to_cpu\n(rt-\u003eused). A traversal that visits more than ne slots is by\nconstruction malformed; reject it as a corrupt RESTART_TABLE.\n\nAfter this patch, mount of the forged image returns with -EINVAL\nand a log_replay failure message, and mkntfs-produced legitimate\nimages mount cleanly (verified in the same UML harness)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8128bec895075253c779d67afdc90ae513265fca"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7972df425687daa70d971fe6ed415e78683133dd"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ac4c86915c24c208a0f0611b71d9676686fe756"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29b86dbe88cbbef53bb9aaec2e279359f8c450f8"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0fad25687d4d3fa1fdd313d31b9cb5817c425029"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d313416280d41bea272f02a6034dfa88008692a0"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9611f644302c07d21bc8af97e3e06a3d30064253"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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