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CVE-2026-72201

ntfs: validate index entries on reading PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: validate index entries on reading Validate index entries immediately after reading an index root or index block from disk. This eliminates repeated checks in lookup and readdir, and reduce the risk of missing checks in those paths.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 0a8ac0c1fa0b99a5b29002bc7f232ed7eafddef0 before e2b95d3adb558ddd5685f9e072ec8661d57ee3a9; affected 0a8ac0c1fa0b99a5b29002bc7f232ed7eafddef0 before 2221b691d7b2e17f08153f95848dacaa5d87e21d
Linux / Linuxaffected 7.1; unaffected 0 before 7.1; unaffected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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