High · published September 12, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: fix info-leak on partial LZNT decompress in ni_read_frame()
ni_read_frame() decompresses an LZNT $DATA frame into the vmapped target
pages and then trusts decompress_lznt()'s return value:
unc_size = decompress_lznt(frame_ondisk, ondisk_size, frame_mem,
frame_size);
if ((ssize_t)unc_size < 0) err = unc_size;
else if (!unc_size || unc_size > frame_size) err = -EINVAL;
decompress_lznt() stops as soon as the compressed stream is exhausted
(e.g. a zero chunk header) and returns the number of bytes it actually
wrote, which may be far less than frame_size. The bytes between unc_size
and frame_size are never written. The only memset() that follows zeroes
the region beyond i_valid; when the frame lies entirely within the file's
valid size that memset() does not run, so the gap retains whatever was in
the just-vmapped pages. All pages are then marked uptodate and returned
to userspace, disclosing uninitialized (recently-freed) kernel page
memory. A crafted compressed file whose stream decompresses to only a few
bytes leaks the remainder of every frame on a plain read(2), which is
enough to recover kernel pointers and defeat KASLR.
Zero the [unc_size, frame_size) tail immediately after a successful LZNT
decompress so the remainder reads back as zero.