# 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-2026-72197"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:56.149Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:01.720Z"
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-2026-72197"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72197.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72197"
title: "fs/ntfs3: bound DeleteIndexEntryAllocation memmove length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: bound DeleteIndexEntryAllocation memmove length\n\nIn do_action()'s DeleteIndexEntryAllocation case, e-\u003esize comes\nfrom an on-disk INDEX_BUFFER entry.  When e-\u003esize makes\ne + e-\u003esize point past hdr + hdr-\u003eused,\nPtrOffset(e1, Add2Ptr(hdr, used)) returns a negative ptrdiff_t\nthat is silently cast to a quasi-infinite size_t when passed\nto memmove().  The memmove then walks past the destination\nbuffer.\n\nThe sibling DeleteIndexEntryRoot case at fslog.c:3540-3543\nalready carries the corresponding guard:\n\n\tif (PtrOffset(e1, Add2Ptr(hdr, used)) \u003c esize ||\n\t    Add2Ptr(e, esize) \u003e Add2Ptr(lrh, rec_len) ||\n\t    used + esize \u003e le32_to_cpu(hdr-\u003etotal)) {\n\t\tgoto dirty_vol;\n\t}\n\nApply the same shape to the allocation-path case.  Also reject\nesize == 0: memmove(e, e, ...) is a no-op and leaves\nhdr-\u003eused unchanged, hiding a malformed entry from the\nexisting check_index_header() walk.\n\nReproduced under UML+KASAN on mainline 8d90b09e6741 by\nmounting a crafted NTFS image: the unguarded memmove takes a\nlength of 0xffffffffffffff00 and the kernel oopses in\nmemmove+0x81/0x1a0 on the do_action+0x36a2 frame.\n\n[almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: clang-formatted the changes]"
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