# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72225"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:17.541Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:02.597Z"
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-2026-72225"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72225.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72225"
title: "jbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit()\n\njbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit() validates journal capacity by\nchecking (journal-\u003ej_last - num_fc_blks \u003c JBD2_MIN_JOURNAL_BLOCKS).\nBoth j_last and num_fc_blks are unsigned, so when num_fc_blks exceeds\nj_last the subtraction wraps to a large value, bypassing the bounds\ncheck.\n\nThe resulting underflow corrupts j_last, j_fc_first, and j_free,\nleading to journal abort.\n\nFix by checking num_fc_blks against j_last before the subtraction,\nreturning -EFSCORRUPTED."
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