CVE-2026-72478

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A\ncrafted $LogFile UpdateMappingPairs record whose embedded attribute\ncontains mapping-pairs runs without a terminator causes the function to\nread past the slab allocation, triggering a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds\nread on mount.\n\nThe sibling function run_unpack() received an analogous bounds-check in\ncommit b62567bca474 (\"ntfs3: add buffer boundary checks to run_unpack()\"),\nbut run_get_highest_vcn() was missed.\n\nTake a run_buf_size parameter and reject any run header whose payload\nwould extend past the buffer end, mirroring the pattern used by\nrun_unpack(). The caller in fslog.c passes the remaining attribute\nbytes after the mapping-pairs offset.\n\nKASAN report (on mainline v7.1 merge window HEAD):\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in run_get_highest_vcn+0x3c0/0x410\n Read of size 1 at addr ffff88800e2d5400 by task mount/72\n Call Trace:\n run_get_highest_vcn+0x3c0/0x410\n do_action.isra.0+0x3ba8/0x7b50\n log_replay+0x9ddd/0x10200\n ntfs_loadlog_and_replay+0x4ad/0x610\n ntfs_fill_super+0x214a/0x4540"}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 8.4, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - mount(2)/get_tree_bdev on a crafted NTFS block device or loop image reaches ntfs_fill_super()\u2192ntfs_loadlog_and_replay()\u2192log_replay()\u2192do_action(UpdateMappingPairs)\u2192run_get_highest_vcn(); no network handler parses $LogFile.\nAC:L - The attacker fully controls the on-disk $LogFile UpdateMappingPairs record and embedded non-resident mapping-pairs bytes; omitting the 0x00 terminator deterministically drives the unbounded parser past the attribute buffer on the first replay mount with no race.\nPR:N - The attacker needs no account or privilege on the victim; supplying a malicious NTFS image on USB/removable media, a disk image, or shared storage is sufficient for udisks2/systemd automount or an administrator mount to reach journal replay.\nUI:N - Desktop/kiosk/shared-workstation automounters mount attacker-supplied NTFS media and run $LogFile replay without the user opening files or running commands; insertion of the crafted volume is sufficient to trigger parsing on mount.\nS:U - Slab out-of-bounds reads and resulting mount-time kernel faults stay within the host kernel security authority; no VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or cross-boundary scope change.\nC:H - run_get_highest_vcn() scans mapping pairs with no length bound, performing slab out-of-bounds byte reads via run_unpack_s64(); kernel guidance treats 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