CVE-2026-72470

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: resize log->one_page_buf when adopting on-disk page size log_replay() allocates log->one_page_buf using the page size that was chosen from the host PAGE_SIZE: log->one_page_buf = kmalloc(log->page_size, GFP_NOFS); Later, when a restart area is found, the log page size recorded on disk is adopted: t32 = le32_to_cpu(log->rst_info.r_page->sys_page_size); if (log->page_size != t32) { log->l_size = log->orig_file_size; log->page_size = norm_file_page(t32, &log->l_size, t32 == DefaultLogPageSize); } If the on-disk page size is larger than the size used for the initial allocation, log->page_size grows but one_page_buf is left at its original, smaller size. A subsequent unaligned read_log_page() then reads log->page_size bytes into the undersized scratch buffer: page_buf = page_off ? log->one_page_buf : *buffer; err = ntfs_read_run_nb_ra(ni->mi.sbi, &ni->file.run, page_vbo, page_buf, log->page_size, NULL, &log->read_ahead); overflowing the allocation. This is reachable when mounting a dirty NTFS volume whose log was formatted with a page size larger than the buffer initially allocated on the mounting host (for example a 64K-log volume mounted on a host that allocated a 4K scratch buffer). Grow one_page_buf when the adopted on-disk page size exceeds the size used for the initial allocation. On krealloc() failure the original buffer is left intact and freed by the existing error path.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72470
• https://git.kernel.org/linus/5a35454179fe1041d9cd286f5d320ce0d448c12a (7.2-rc1)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2097a2537d9d1c29c0e20ed0dbf717a0ccd8f374
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f129fc6f756f8541e5bff45b1804cc11b1ec712
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a35454179fe1041d9cd286f5d320ce0d448c12a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c99444f6dfca893f6d310aae4a53c620f98f7b4f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1422df595d69b997d23a8f11e12c528ccef7fad