CVE-2026-72192: Software Security Vulnerability Vulnerability

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  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-gc6w-qcf3-4mhm",
  "modified" : "2026-08-17T06:33:15Z",
  "published" : "2026-08-15T06:32:15Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2026-72192" ],
  "details" : "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs3: bound to_move in indx_insert_into_root before hdr_insert_head\n\nindx_insert_into_root() promotes a full resident $INDEX_ROOT into\n$INDEX_ALLOCATION and copies all non-last resident root entries into\na newly allocated INDEX_BUFFER via hdr_insert_head(). The source\nbyte count 'to_move' is summed from the on-disk resident entry sizes\nand is independent of the destination buffer size, which comes from\nroot->index_block_size (via indx->index_bits).\n\nA crafted NTFS image that keeps a valid, full resident root but\nshrinks root->index_block_size down to 512 after the root has been\npopulated makes hdr_insert_head() memcpy attacker-controlled resident\nentry bytes past the end of the kmalloc(1u << indx->index_bits)\nallocation returned by indx_new(). For a 512-byte destination and a\nresident root whose non-last entries total 560 bytes, the memcpy\noverruns by 120 bytes and a following memmove extends the highest\nwritten offset to 136 bytes past the allocation. The overflow bytes\nare a direct copy of on-disk entries (via kmemdup), so they are\nfully attacker-controlled.\n\nThe write is reachable from unprivileged open(O_CREAT) on a mounted\ncrafted NTFS image: a single sufficiently long create in a directory\nwhose resident root is already full forces root promotion and\ntriggers the copy.\n\nThis is a controlled out-of-bounds write of 120-136 bytes past a\nkmalloc(index_block_size) allocation, with attacker-controlled\ncontent. It is a bounded adjacent-heap corruption primitive; it is\nnot an arbitrary-address write. Successful exploitation into a named\nvictim object depends on the surrounding slab layout.\n\nReject the copy at the sink. The destination's INDEX_HDR already\nreports hdr_total (the payload capacity of the new buffer) and\nhdr_used (the bytes already consumed by the terminal END entry\ninstalled by indx_new()); require that to_move fits in the remaining\npayload before calling hdr_insert_head(). On mismatch, fail with\n-EINVAL and mark the filesystem as having a detected on-disk\ninconsistency, which is the same behaviour as the surrounding\nvalidation in this function.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72192"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0af83b8155cc848e9f5d2c36e20a70d024214649"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/194b00c99ba971fa7cf6acd747a36032c6de54eb"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53c5f3b2da3774b41534728aba295c098c9efa19"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b6926ac9c970ae0b2c2fe6289b16e9aa10b6a67"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aaa1f956c0fc41089a4a534da7df91552a08a47c"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb3161deebcaf8d36d3115abf452c633f2180fc1"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d240f5f9d036b8180224954d9873f172b6be4dd8"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ ],
    "severity" : "CRITICAL",
    "github_reviewed" : false,
    "github_reviewed_at" : null,
    "nvd_published_at" : "2026-08-15T06:21:37Z"
  }
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