# 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-2026-72194"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:54.125Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:01.099Z"
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-2026-72194"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72194.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72194"
title: "fs/ntfs3: add depth limit to indx_find_buffer to prevent stack overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: add depth limit to indx_find_buffer to prevent stack overflow\n\nindx_find_buffer() recursively descends the B+ tree index with no depth\nlimit.  A crafted NTFS image with circular index node references causes\nunbounded recursion, overflowing the kernel stack and panicking the\nsystem.\n\nThis is reachable by mounting a malicious NTFS filesystem (e.g. from a\nUSB drive via desktop automount) and deleting a file whose index entry\ntriggers the rebalancing fallback path in indx_delete_entry().\n\nAdd a depth parameter and bail out with -EINVAL when it reaches the\nfnd-\u003enodes array bound, matching the constraint already enforced by\nfnd_push() in indx_find().\n\nThe related function indx_find() was previously patched for a similar\ninfinite-loop issue (commit 1732053c8a6b), but indx_find_buffer() was\nmissed."
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