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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90199"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:17.550Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:59:35.489Z"
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-2026-90199"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90199.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90199"
title: "fs/ntfs3: reject out-of-range evcn in mi_enum_attr()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: reject out-of-range evcn in mi_enum_attr()\n\nIn mi_enum_attr(), the start/end VCN validation for non-resident\nattributes is:\n\n\tif (svcn \u003e evcn + 1) goto out;\n\nWhen evcn is U64_MAX the \"evcn + 1\" expression wraps to 0 and any svcn\npasses the check. For evcn values close to U64_MAX (but not equal to it)\nthe right-hand side is still a meaningless near-wrap upper bound, so a\nmalformed on-disk attribute with svcn == 0 and evcn near U64_MAX can pass\nmi_enum_attr() unrejected.\n\nVCN (virtual cluster number) is a cluster index, so any valid evcn is\nbounded by the volume's total cluster count, which ntfs3 holds in\nsbi-\u003eused.bitmap.nbits (set up in ntfs_init_from_boot() before any caller\nof mi_enum_attr() runs). Reject evcn values that fall outside this range.\n\nHowever, an empty non-resident attribute (no allocated clusters) is\nlegitimately encoded with svcn == 0 and evcn == -1 (U64_MAX), e.g. via\nattr-\u003enres.evcn = cpu_to_le64((u64)vcn - 1) with vcn == 0. That sentinel\nmust keep passing, so exclude evcn == U64_MAX from the range check. The\nexisting \"svcn \u003e evcn + 1\" test still tolerates the sentinel (\"0 \u003e 0\" is\nfalse) and continues to require svcn == 0 for it, while the range check\nrejects every other out-of-range evcn and thereby also defuses the\n\"evcn + 1\" wraparound.\n\nsvcn does not need its own bound: once evcn \u003c nbits, \"svcn \u003e evcn + 1\"\nimplies svcn \u003c= nbits.\n\n[almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: fixed evcn check]"
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