{"id":"CVE-2026-80672","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-80672","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:57:49.734Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: fix u16 truncation of restart-area length check ntfs_check_restart_area() validates that the $LogFile restart area and its trailing log client record array fit within the system…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: fix u16 truncation of restart-area length check\n\nntfs_check_restart_area() validates that the $LogFile restart area and\nits trailing log client record array fit within the system page size:\n\n        u16 ra_ofs, ra_len, ca_ofs;\n        ...\n        ra_len = ca_ofs + le16_to_cpu(ra->log_clients) *\n                        sizeof(struct log_client_record);\n        if (ra_ofs + ra_len > le32_to_cpu(rp->system_page_size) || ...)\n                return false;\n\nra_len is u16, but the right-hand side is computed in size_t\n(sizeof(struct log_client_record) == 160). Both ca_ofs and log_clients\ncome straight from the on-disk restart area. With an on-disk\nlog_clients of 410 the product 410 * 160 = 65600; adding ca_ofs and\nstoring into the u16 ra_len truncates modulo 65536 (e.g. ca_ofs 64\ngives ra_len 128), so the \"fits in the page\" check passes even though\nthe client array described by log_clients extends far beyond the page.\n\nntfs_check_log_client_array() then walks the array bounded only by the\non-disk log_clients count:\n\n        cr = ca + idx;\n        if (cr->prev_client != LOGFILE_NO_CLIENT) ...\n\nFor log_clients 410 it dereferences records up to ca + 409 * 160,\n~64 KiB past the kvzalloc(system_page_size) restart-page buffer -- an\nout-of-bounds read of attacker-controlled extent, reachable when a\ncrafted NTFS image is mounted (load_and_check_logfile() at mount time).\nThis is the in-kernel analogue of CVE-2022-30789, fixed in the ntfs-3g\nuserspace driver but never in this revived classic driver.\n\nCompute the restart-area length in a u32 so the existing bounds check\nrejects an over-large client array instead of being defeated by the\ntruncation. Widen ra_ofs and ca_ofs to u32 as well: both are loaded\nfrom __le16 on-disk fields and every comparison already promotes to\nint/size_t, so this changes no result and keeps the declaration uniform.","published":"2026-08-28T08:16:53.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-29T07:16:50.000Z","status":"Received","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00165,"percentile":0.05669,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07a4751ef3ccc8bfd17bfbb16e5003c03161790d","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/390936fb15053d8d8991ca3a22776e251a5a7f2f","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80672","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}