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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97437"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:03:50.105Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:58:22.091Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97437"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97437.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97437"
title: "ntfs3: fix out-of-bounds read in ntfs_dir_emit() and hdr_find_e()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs3: fix out-of-bounds read in ntfs_dir_emit() and hdr_find_e()\n\nThe bounds check in ntfs_dir_emit() compares fname-\u003ename_len (a\ncharacter count) against e-\u003esize (a byte count) without accounting\nfor the 2-byte-per-character UTF-16LE encoding or the ATTR_FILE_NAME\nheader size:\n\n  if (fname-\u003ename_len + sizeof(struct NTFS_DE) \u003e le16_to_cpu(e-\u003esize))\n\nThis computes: name_len + 16 \u003e e_size\n\nThe correct check must account for the ATTR_FILE_NAME header (66 bytes\nbefore the name) and the UTF-16LE character size (2 bytes each):\n\n  sizeof(NTFS_DE) + offsetof(ATTR_FILE_NAME, name) +\n  name_len * sizeof(short) \u003e e_size\n\nWhich computes: 16 + 66 + name_len * 2 \u003e e_size\n\nThe correct calculation already exists as fname_full_size() in ntfs.h\nand is used in cmp_fnames(), namei.c, and fslog.c, but was not used\nin the readdir path.\n\nA crafted NTFS image with an index entry containing a small e-\u003esize\nbut large fname-\u003ename_len bypasses the current check, causing\nntfs_utf16_to_nls() to read past the entry boundary.\n\nAdditionally, add a key_size validation in hdr_find_e() to ensure the\ndeclared key_size does not exceed the available entry data, preventing\ncomparison functions from reading past entry boundaries on the lookup\npath."
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