CVE-2026-72471: fs/ntfs3: prevent potential lcn remains uninitialized

Published Aug 15, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: prevent potential lcn remains uninitialized

The target VCN being sought was not found within runs[0], causing runlookup() to return false. This causes runlookupentry() to return false, which in turn results in a len value of 0, and the new parameter passed to attrdatagetblock() is NULL. Collectively, these factors ultimately cause attrdatagetblocklocked() to exit prematurely without initializing lcn, thereby triggering [1].

To prevent [1], the clen check within niseekdataorhole() has been moved to occur before the lcn check.

[1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in niseekdataorhole+0x24f/0x5f0 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2862 niseekdataorhole+0x24f/0x5f0 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2862 ntfsllseek+0x22a/0x4a0 fs/ntfs3/file.c:1530 vfsllseek fs/readwrite.c:391 [inline]

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Kernel

Event History

Aug 15, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:57 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:57 AM
Description
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