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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89616" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:16.064Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:49:48.800Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89616" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89616.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89616" title: "fs/ntfs3: fix info-leak on partial LZNT decompress in ni_read_frame()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: fix info-leak on partial LZNT decompress in ni_read_frame()\n\nni_read_frame() decompresses an LZNT $DATA frame into the vmapped target\npages and then trusts decompress_lznt()'s return value:\n\n unc_size = decompress_lznt(frame_ondisk, ondisk_size, frame_mem,\n frame_size);\n if ((ssize_t)unc_size \u003c 0) err = unc_size;\n else if (!unc_size || unc_size \u003e frame_size) err = -EINVAL;\n\ndecompress_lznt() stops as soon as the compressed stream is exhausted\n(e.g. a zero chunk header) and returns the number of bytes it actually\nwrote, which may be far less than frame_size. The bytes between unc_size\nand frame_size are never written. The only memset() that follows zeroes\nthe region beyond i_valid; when the frame lies entirely within the file's\nvalid size that memset() does not run, so the gap retains whatever was in\nthe just-vmapped pages. All pages are then marked uptodate and returned\nto userspace, disclosing uninitialized (recently-freed) kernel page\nmemory. A crafted compressed file whose stream decompresses to only a few\nbytes leaks the remainder of every frame on a plain read(2), which is\nenough to recover kernel pointers and defeat KASLR.\n\nZero the [unc_size, frame_size) tail immediately after a successful LZNT\ndecompress so the remainder reads back as zero." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d60a4c49af4d5cb88aa7cbf998d0408bd415055"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd40eee4923d104ebec9ac7513b971bc441e431d"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77d8efd04745cda23858546afdbd9d07b591758e"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f699ddb290a24b37e1bc9bf1e3c9dbccf564bea"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"376ee45659a4b943df672ad275c63da00655f929"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a1b39b2e10eb8de86265e80cf2be4396bc1dce4"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35d1ea92c7d946e2ebdbe36cdb2c969c8704bebd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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