CVE-2026-99101: ntfs: move attribute payload before shrinking its record

Published Oct 28, 2026
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Updated

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

ntfs: move attribute payload before shrinking its record

ntfsnewattrflags() resizes the non-resident attribute record before moving its name and mapping pairs to their shorter-header offsets when compression or sparse state is cleared.

Shrinking the record first moves the following attribute over the tail of the old record. The subsequent memmove() therefore copies bytes from that following attribute instead of the old mapping pairs. Re-enabling compression on an empty file persists those bytes as a malformed mapping pairs array, which ntfsck reports as a missing or invalid run length.

Move the payload before shrinking the record, while retaining the existing resize-before-move ordering when growing it.

Event History

Oct 28, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:34 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:34 AM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·11:17 AM
Description
Oct 29, 2026
Data Sourced
via Microsoft·08:03 AM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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