Security Advisory

CVE-2026-72206

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-15 05:54:02
Last updated 2026-08-18 06:56:26
Assigner Linux
CVSS score 9.8
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: validate index block header more strictly Modify ntfs_index_block_inconsisent() to perform stricter validation of INDEX_HEADER geometry in INDX blocks, and update ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() to use that function to validate INDX blocks.