CVE-2026-89779

fs/ntfs3: validate ef->size covers the record's name and value

CVE-2026-89779 is fixed in 57 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89779, released September 23, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
9.1
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0070
53rd percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: validate ef->size covers the record's name and value When an EA record has a non-zero ef->size, ntfs_read_ea() only checks that the record fits in the remaining buffer (ea_size > bytes), not that ef->size is large enough to hold the record's own name_len + 1 + elength. A crafted image can pass validation with, e.g., ef->size = 24 but elength = 0xffff. ntfs_get_ea() then trusts elength and copies it out of the undersized record, reading past the kmalloc(info->size) allocation and leaking heap memory to userspace via getxattr(): BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302) Read of size 65535 at addr ffff888100794550 by task exploit __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105) ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302) ntfs_getxattr (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:848) __vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:441) vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:474) do_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:800) path_getxattrat (fs/xattr.c:868) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of allocated 84-byte region in cache kmalloc-96 Compute the size the record needs and require ef->size to cover it.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
bpftool-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
bpftool6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
bpftool6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
bpftool6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
bpftool6.18-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-headers · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-livepatch-6.1.188-233.385 · amzn 2023 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-livepatch-6.12.110-135.201 · amzn 2023 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-livepatch-6.18.54-121.166 · amzn 2023 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-modules-extra · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-headers · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-modules-extra · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.12-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-headers · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-modules-extra · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
kernel6.18-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.1.190-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89779 Sep 23, 2026
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.111-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89779 Sep 23, 2026
linux · Debian 14 7.2.6-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89779 Sep 23, 2026
linux-6.12 · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89779 Sep 23, 2026
microvm-kernel6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
perf · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
perf6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
perf6.18-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
python3-perf · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
python3-perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3197 Nov 7, 2026
python3-perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
python3-perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196 Nov 7, 2026
python3-perf6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026
python3-perf6.18-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192 Nov 7, 2026

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