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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72210"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:05.527Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T10:49:39.287Z"
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-2026-72210"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72210.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72210"
title: "ntfs: fix off-by-one in mapping pairs decoding bounds checks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: fix off-by-one in mapping pairs decoding bounds checks\n\nIn ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), attr_end points one byte past the\nend of the attribute record:\n\n    attr_end = (u8 *)attr + le32_to_cpu(attr-\u003elength);\n\nThe two bounds checks validating that mapping pair data bytes fit within\nthe attribute use strict greater-than (\u003e), which allows a one-byte\nout-of-bounds read when the data extends exactly to attr_end:\n\n  b = *buf & 0xf;\n  if (b) {\n      if (unlikely(buf + b \u003e attr_end))   // off-by-one\n          goto io_error;\n      for (deltaxcn = (s8)buf[b--]; b; b--)\n          deltaxcn = (deltaxcn \u003c\u003c 8) + buf[b];\n  }\n\nWhen buf + b == attr_end, the check evaluates to false and buf[b] reads\none byte past the valid attribute boundary. The same pattern appears in\nthe LCN delta bytes check.\n\nFix both checks to use \u003e= so that buf[b] at exactly attr_end is\ncorrectly rejected as out of bounds."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bfe835e535fe0aa5767fdd8116f62e835ba50b55"},{"version":"1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18760a74ef7c28df93726445b5595162e62ed341"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"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"}]

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