CVE-2026-45864

Updated on 27 May 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

fs/ntfs3: prevent infinite loops caused by the next valid being the same

When processing valid within the range [valid : pos), if valid cannot be retrieved correctly, for example, if the retrieved valid value is always the same, this can trigger a potential infinite loop, similar to the hung problem reported by syzbot [1].

Adding a check for the valid value within the loop body, and terminating the loop and returning -EINVAL if the value is the same as the current value, can prevent this.

[1] INFO: task syz.4.21:6056 blocked for more than 143 seconds. Call Trace: rwbase_write_lock+0x14f/0x750 kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c:244 inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:1027 [inline] ntfs_file_write_iter+0xe6/0x870 fs/ntfs3/file.c:1284

Details

Affected product:
Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux-meta @ 5.4.0

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Amazon Linux 2023 Planned
Debian 13 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 Released
45 kernels
  • 6.8.0-35.35
  • 6.8.0-38.38
  • 6.8.0-36.36
  • 6.8.0-39.39
  • 6.8.0-40.40
  • 6.8.0-41.41
  • 6.8.0-44.44
  • 6.8.0-45.45
  • 6.8.0-31.31
  • 6.8.0-47.47
  • 6.8.0-48.48
  • 6.8.0-49.49
  • 6.8.0-50.51
  • 6.8.0-51.52
  • 6.8.0-52.53
  • 6.8.0-54.56
  • 6.8.0-55.57
  • 6.8.0-53.55
  • 6.8.0-56.58
  • 6.8.0-57.59
  • 6.8.0-58.60
  • 6.8.0-59.61
  • 6.8.0-60.63
  • 6.8.0-62.65
  • 6.8.0-63.66
  • 6.8.0-64.67
  • 6.8.0-71.71
  • 6.8.0-78.78
  • 6.8.0-79.79
  • 6.8.0-84.84
  • 6.8.0-85.85
  • 6.8.0-83.83
  • 6.8.0-86.87
  • 6.8.0-87.88
  • 6.8.0-88.89
  • 6.8.0-90.91
  • 6.8.0-94.96
  • 6.8.0-100.100
  • 6.8.0-101.101
  • 6.8.0-106.106
  • 6.8.0-107.107
  • 6.8.0-110.110
  • 6.8.0-111.111
  • 6.8.0-117.117
  • 6.8.0-124.124
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned