CVE-2026-89779EPSS p51.4%
CVE-2026-89779CVE-2026-89779
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: validate ef->size covers the record's name and value
When an EA record has a non-zero ef->size, ntfs_read_ea() only checks
that the record fits in the remaining buffer (ea_size > bytes), not that
ef->size is large enough to hold the record's own name_len + 1 + elength.
A crafted image can pass validation with, e.g., ef->size = 24 but
elength = 0xffff. ntfs_get_ea() then trusts elength and copies it out of
the undersized record, reading past the kmalloc(info->size) allocation
and leaking heap memory to userspace via getxattr():
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302)
Read of size 65535 at addr ffff888100794550 by task exploit
__asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105)
ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302)
ntfs_getxattr (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:848)
__vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:441)
vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:474)
do_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:800)
path_getxattrat (fs/xattr.c:868)
do_s
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.1 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.70% probability of exploitation · percentile 51.4% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-16 |