CVE-2026-72201Critical vulnerability in Linux NTFS driver
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: validate index entries on reading Validate index entries immediately after reading an index root or index block from disk. This eliminates repeated checks in lookup and readdir, and reduce the risk of missing checks in those paths.
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Se ha corregido una vulnerabilidad de severidad critica (CVSS 9.8) en el controlador NTFS del kernel de Linux. La falla involucra una validación insuficiente al leer entradas de índice, lo que podría permitir el compromiso del sistema al procesar sistemas de archivos maliciosos.
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Severity
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HEPSS
Technical description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: validate index entries on reading Validate index entries immediately after reading an index root or index block from disk. This eliminates repeated checks in lookup and readdir, and reduce the risk of missing checks in those paths.