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CVE-2026-72193— ntfs3: cap RESTART_TABLE free-chain walker at rt->used

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Affected
Linux Linux
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.

Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会开源的一个操作系统内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于RESTART_TABLE自由链表遍历无上限，可能导致特制NTFS3磁盘镜像在挂载时触发内核无限循环，导致拒绝服务。

AI Predicted 5.5 Difficulty: Easy EPSS 0.21% · P11

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1496 · Resource Hijacking

Affected Version Matrix 16

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445< 8128bec895075253c779d67afdc90ae513265fca affected
b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445< 7972df425687daa70d971fe6ed415e78683133dd affected
b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445< 7ac4c86915c24c208a0f0611b71d9676686fe756 affected
b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445< 29b86dbe88cbbef53bb9aaec2e279359f8c450f8 affected
b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445< 0fad25687d4d3fa1fdd313d31b9cb5817c425029 affected
b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445< d313416280d41bea272f02a6034dfa88008692a0 affected
b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445< 9611f644302c07d21bc8af97e3e06a3d30064253 affected
5.15 affected
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-72193

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Vulnerability Title
ntfs3: cap RESTART_TABLE free-chain walker at rt->used
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs3: cap RESTART_TABLE free-chain walker at rt->used A crafted NTFS3 disk image triggers an in-kernel infinite loop at mount time, hanging the mounting thread and firing the soft-lockup watchdog within ~22s on multi-CPU hosts (panic with kernel.softlockup_panic=1). The bug is reachable from desktop USB auto-mount on distributions where udisks2 routes the NTFS signature to the in-tree ntfs3 driver (Arch family and an increasing fraction of Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL deployments); CAP_SYS_ADMIN-class manual mount elsewhere. check_rstbl()'s second walker iterates the free-entry singly-linked list headed by rt->first_free with no upper bound on iteration count: for (off = ff; off;) { if (off == RESTART_ENTRY_ALLOCATED) return false; off = le32_to_cpu(*(__le32 *)Add2Ptr(rt, off)); if (off > ts - sizeof(__le32)) return false; } The existing guards cover three exits: end-of-list (off == 0), the in-use marker (off == RESTART_ENTRY_ALLOCATED), and out-of-bounds (off > ts - sizeof(__le32)). None of the three prevents an in-bounds cycle. A crafted on-disk RESTART_TABLE whose free chain contains a self-loop or A->B->A cycle whose offsets satisfy: - in range [sizeof(struct RESTART_TABLE), ts - sizeof(__le32)] - (off - sizeof(struct RESTART_TABLE)) % rsize == 0 passes all existing guards and spins the mount-time thread forever. Reproduced in UML by hand-forging a 2 MB NTFS3 image whose journal RESTART_TABLE first_free = 0x18 and whose entry at offset 0x18 stores 0x18 as its next pointer; mount of the forged image with the in-tree ntfs3 driver never returns. Bound the walker by rt->used. Each entry on a legitimate free chain is unique, and the total slot count is ne = le16_to_cpu (rt->used). A traversal that visits more than ne slots is by construction malformed; reject it as a corrupt RESTART_TABLE. After this patch, mount of the forged image returns with -EINVAL and a log_replay failure message, and mkntfs-produced legitimate images mount cleanly (verified in the same UML harness).
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会开源的一个操作系统内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于RESTART_TABLE自由链表遍历无上限，可能导致特制NTFS3磁盘镜像在挂载时触发内核无限循环，导致拒绝服务。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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Linux Linux b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 ~ 8128bec895075253c779d67afdc90ae513265fca -
Linux Linux 5.15 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2026-72193 (7)

Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2026-08-15 · 845 CVEs total

CVE-2026-74475 10.0 CRITICAL vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()
CVE-2026-74280 10.0 CRITICAL crypto: marvell/octeontx - fix DMA cleanup using wrong loop index
CVE-2026-74279 10.0 CRITICAL crypto: cavium/cpt - fix DMA cleanup using wrong loop index
CVE-2026-72408 10.0 CRITICAL geneve: gate GRO hint in geneve_gro_complete() on gs->gro_hint
CVE-2026-74309 10.0 CRITICAL vdpa/octeon_ep: fix IRQ-to-ring mapping in interrupt handler
CVE-2026-72421 10.0 CRITICAL ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables.
CVE-2026-72407 10.0 CRITICAL geneve: validate inner network offset in geneve_gro_complete()
CVE-2026-72493 9.9 CRITICAL net: serialize netif_running() check in enqueue_to_backlog()
CVE-2026-72201 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs: validate index entries on reading
CVE-2026-74268 9.8 CRITICAL tcp: clear sock_ops cb flags before force-closing a child socket
CVE-2026-72065 9.8 CRITICAL net: mana: Validate the packet length reported by the NIC
CVE-2026-72064 9.8 CRITICAL net: mana: Sync page pool RX frags for CPU
CVE-2026-74478 9.8 CRITICAL um: vector: fix use-after-free in vector_mmsg_rx()
CVE-2026-72191 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs3: validate split-point offset in indx_insert_into_buffer
CVE-2026-72192 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs3: bound to_move in indx_insert_into_root before hdr_insert_head
CVE-2026-72194 9.8 CRITICAL fs/ntfs3: add depth limit to indx_find_buffer to prevent stack overflow
CVE-2026-74269 9.8 CRITICAL bnxt: fix head underflow on XDP head-grow
CVE-2026-72209 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs: validate attribute values on lookup
CVE-2026-72211 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs: grow index root value before reparent header update
CVE-2026-72210 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs: fix off-by-one in mapping pairs decoding bounds checks

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