# 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-2026-72470"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:12.472Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:44:35.099Z"
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-2026-72470"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72470.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72470"
title: "fs/ntfs3: resize log-\u003eone_page_buf when adopting on-disk page size"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: resize log-\u003eone_page_buf when adopting on-disk page size\n\nlog_replay() allocates log-\u003eone_page_buf using the page size that was\nchosen from the host PAGE_SIZE:\n\n\tlog-\u003eone_page_buf = kmalloc(log-\u003epage_size, GFP_NOFS);\n\nLater, when a restart area is found, the log page size recorded on disk\nis adopted:\n\n\tt32 = le32_to_cpu(log-\u003erst_info.r_page-\u003esys_page_size);\n\tif (log-\u003epage_size != t32) {\n\t\tlog-\u003el_size = log-\u003eorig_file_size;\n\t\tlog-\u003epage_size = norm_file_page(t32, &log-\u003el_size,\n\t\t\t\t\t\tt32 == DefaultLogPageSize);\n\t}\n\nIf the on-disk page size is larger than the size used for the initial\nallocation, log-\u003epage_size grows but one_page_buf is left at its\noriginal, smaller size. A subsequent unaligned read_log_page() then\nreads log-\u003epage_size bytes into the undersized scratch buffer:\n\n\tpage_buf = page_off ? log-\u003eone_page_buf : *buffer;\n\terr = ntfs_read_run_nb_ra(ni-\u003emi.sbi, &ni-\u003efile.run, page_vbo, page_buf,\n\t\t\t\t  log-\u003epage_size, NULL, &log-\u003eread_ahead);\n\noverflowing the allocation. This is reachable when mounting a dirty\nNTFS volume whose log was formatted with a page size larger than the\nbuffer initially allocated on the mounting host (for example a 64K-log\nvolume mounted on a host that allocated a 4K scratch buffer).\n\nGrow one_page_buf when the adopted on-disk page size exceeds the size\nused for the initial allocation. On krealloc() failure the original\nbuffer is left intact and freed by the existing error path."
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