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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89779" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T08:48:19.083Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:52:31.490Z" 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-2026-89779" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89779.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89779" title: "fs/ntfs3: validate ef-\u003esize covers the record's name and value" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: validate ef-\u003esize covers the record's name and value\n\nWhen an EA record has a non-zero ef-\u003esize, ntfs_read_ea() only checks\nthat the record fits in the remaining buffer (ea_size \u003e bytes), not that\nef-\u003esize is large enough to hold the record's own name_len + 1 + elength.\n\nA crafted image can pass validation with, e.g., ef-\u003esize = 24 but\nelength = 0xffff. ntfs_get_ea() then trusts elength and copies it out of\nthe undersized record, reading past the kmalloc(info-\u003esize) allocation\nand leaking heap memory to userspace via getxattr():\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302)\n Read of size 65535 at addr ffff888100794550 by task exploit\n __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105)\n ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302)\n ntfs_getxattr (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:848)\n __vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:441)\n vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:474)\n do_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:800)\n path_getxattrat (fs/xattr.c:868)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n\n The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of\n allocated 84-byte region in cache kmalloc-96\n\nCompute the size the record needs and require ef-\u003esize to cover it." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"333feb7ba84f69f9b423422417aaac54fd9e7c84","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b27e68ad818a4ca2cef8f35f97e75d756714c818"},{"version":"000a9a72efa4a9df289bab9c9e8ba1639c72e0d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28a924c7e67e6d71abeb04860b61166fecb027fc"},{"version":"0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d585ed08308909c7e6fefb4e8a258aeb29b19ff9"},{"version":"0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"077df8464cf24f8ffc82fb6efec2ae600686e699"},{"version":"0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aab1880058ac767d3ea9388a9a7221c776c22c44"},{"version":"0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8a109c9e23a2c7fd548473dde728b2cb8188146"},{"version":"0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c22f91d82cb9a29d22bdffdce6c803467984ad0c"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.221"},{"version":"6.1.40","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.188"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"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":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","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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