CVE-2026-72194

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A crafted NTFS image with circular index node references causes\nunbounded recursion, overflowing the kernel stack and panicking the\nsystem.\n\nThis is reachable by mounting a malicious NTFS filesystem (e.g. from a\nUSB drive via desktop automount) and deleting a file whose index entry\ntriggers the rebalancing fallback path in indx_delete_entry().\n\nAdd a depth parameter and bail out with -EINVAL when it reaches the\nfnd->nodes array bound, matching the constraint already enforced by\nfnd_push() in indx_find().\n\nThe related function indx_find() was previously patched for a similar\ninfinite-loop issue (commit 1732053c8a6b), but indx_find_buffer() was\nmissed."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 9.8, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - ntfs3 registers export_operations; on NAS/hybrid servers exporting an NTFS volume via nfsd or ksmbd, a remote client's 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