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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80673"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:49:12.951Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-29T06:22:00.387Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80673"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80673.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80673"
title: "ntfs: bound the look-ahead attribute-list entry in ntfs_external_attr_find()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: bound the look-ahead attribute-list entry in ntfs_external_attr_find()\n\nWhen resolving an attribute lookup with a non-zero @lowest_vcn,\nntfs_external_attr_find() peeks at the next $ATTRIBUTE_LIST entry to\ndecide whether to keep searching, but bounds that not-yet-validated\nentry only with \"(u8 *)next_al_entry + 6 \u003c al_end\" (which proves just\nbytes 0..6 are in range) and \"(u8 *)next_al_entry + length \u003c= al_end\"\nwith an attacker-controlled, non-8-aligned length. It then reads\nnext_al_entry-\u003elowest_vcn (an __le64 at offset 8) and the name at\nnext_al_entry-\u003ename_offset, both of which can lie past al_end -- the\nexact end of the kvmalloc'd attribute-list buffer (allocated at the\non-disk attr_list_size, no rounding). A crafted on-disk $ATTRIBUTE_LIST\nwhose last entry sits a few bytes before al_end therefore yields a slab\nout-of-bounds read when the inode is read.\n\nValidate the look-ahead entry with ntfs_attr_list_entry_is_valid() (added\nin patch 1/3) before dereferencing lowest_vcn and the name, so the same\nfixed-header, length and name bounds the main attribute-list walk uses now\nguard this read too."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44885c9b45eb4082fb7f558590d84bb254a08e94"},{"version":"1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"344b18f389f9934d59c7b0cf3d20541ea2e0da58"}],"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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