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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72196" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:55.509Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:01.462Z" 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-2026-72196" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72196.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72196" title: "fs/ntfs3: bound copy_lcns dp-\u003epage_lcns[] index in analysis pass" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: bound copy_lcns dp-\u003epage_lcns[] index in analysis pass\n\nIn log_replay()'s analysis pass, after find_dp() returns a\nvalid DIR_PAGE_ENTRY for the (target_attr, target_vcn) tuple,\nthe copy_lcns block walks lrh-\u003elcns_follow further entries:\n\n\tt16 = le16_to_cpu(lrh-\u003elcns_follow);\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c t16; i++) {\n\t size_t j = (size_t)(le64_to_cpu(lrh-\u003etarget_vcn) -\n\t le64_to_cpu(dp-\u003evcn));\n\t dp-\u003epage_lcns[j + i] = lrh-\u003epage_lcns[i];\n\t}\n\nfind_dp() only validates that target_vcn falls within\n[dp-\u003evcn, dp-\u003evcn + dp-\u003elcns_follow), i.e., that the FIRST\ncluster is covered. The walk through the further entries is\nnot bounded against dp-\u003elcns_follow. For a malformed LRH\nwhere target_vcn = dp-\u003evcn + dp-\u003elcns_follow - 1 and\nlrh-\u003elcns_follow \u003e 1, the i \u003e 0 writes overflow the dp's\nallocated page_lcns[] array.\n\nAdd the missing j + lrh-\u003elcns_follow \u003c= dp-\u003elcns_follow guard.\n\nReproduced under UML+KASAN on mainline 8d90b09e6741 as a\nslab-out-of-bounds write of size 8 from log_replay+0x68d4 on\nthe mount path.\n\nThis is distinct from Pavitra Jha's 2026-05-02 patch\n(\"fs/ntfs3: validate lcns_follow in log_replay conversion\",\n\u003c20260502154252.164586-1-jhapavitra98@gmail.com\u003e) which\naddresses the separate version-0 dirty-page-table conversion\npath's memmove(&dp-\u003evcn, ...) call. The two fixes are\ncomplementary; both should land.\n\n[almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: clang-formatted the changes,\nfixed conflicts]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b3d8cc9d54fcded4de51b2b1026ae7182512077"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b7c28d8c61bdb041936222a09a708531a1c2921"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f13e823bf86bd1800168ea0bb5bca8b8500a81c"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d240cd98f5f7b65c90f6b2b6abe3232ccdc405ab"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49c86dae0c0ccb8d98ddcdc46987259389c816dd"},{"version":"b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e7b598660cfa8e5af172cf4c65cffc126333307"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"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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