CVE-2026-90118

CVE-2026-90118

High · published September 17, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: fix off-by-one page overflow in ntfs_decompress()

The per-token range check in ntfs_decompress() uses

if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dp_addr > dp_sb_end)

break;

so dp_addr == dp_sb_end falls through to the symbol copy

`*dp_addr++ = *cb++`, writing one byte past the destination page. Since

NTFS_SB_SIZE == PAGE_SIZE the destination is a single page, so the byte

lands in the adjacent page, and *dest_ofs is left one past the sub-block

end (the later `*dest_ofs &= ~PAGE_MASK` then yields 1, not 0, so the page

is never finalized and later sub-blocks keep writing further past it). A

corrupted compressed $DATA attribute thus produces a bounded run of

out-of-bounds writes when the file is read.

Break as soon as dp_addr reaches dp_sb_end; a full sub-block still

completes, as its final copy advances dp_addr to exactly dp_sb_end.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00174 · 6.5th percentile
Published
2026-09-17T21:17Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 SEP 03:55Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 17 SEP 16:06Z
    ntfs: fix off-by-one page overflow in ntfs_decompress()
    cvelistv5