CVE-2026-31716

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: validate rec->used in journal-replay file record check check_file_record() validates rec->total against the record size but never validates rec->used. The do_action() journal-replay handlers read rec->used from disk and use it to compute memmove lengths: DeleteAttribute: memmove(attr, ..., used - asize - roff) CreateAttribute: memmove(..., attr, used - roff) change_attr_size: memmove(..., used - PtrOffset(rec, next)) When rec->used is smaller than the offset of a validated attribute, or larger than the record size, these subtractions can underflow allowing us to copy huge amounts of memory in to a 4kb buffer, generally considered a bad idea overall. This requires a corrupted filesystem, which isn't a threat model the kernel really needs to worry about, but checking for such an obvious out-of-bounds value is good to keep things robust, especially on journal replay Fix this up by bounding rec->used correctly. This is much like commit b2bc7c44ed17 ("fs/ntfs3: Fix slab-out-of-bounds read in DeleteIndexEntryRoot") which checked different values in this same switch statement.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMay 1, 2026
First seenMay 1, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel6.6.136, 6.12.84, 6.18.25, 7.0.2 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel5.15 ≤ v < 6.6.136, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.12.84, 6.13 ≤ v < 6.18.25, 6.19 ≤ v < 7.0.2, 7.16.6.136, 6.12.84, 6.18.25, 7.0.2

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