CVE-2026-89612

Updated on 11 Sep 2026

Severity

9.8 Critical severity

Details

CVSS score
9.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

ntfs: reject invalid MFT LCNs from boot sector

The NTFS boot sector stores the MFT and MFTMirr locations as unsigned 64-bit LCNs, but parse_ntfs_boot_sector() decoded them into an s64.

A crafted high-bit value could therefore become negative and pass the existing upper-bound check. The invalid value then propagated into the MFT zone allocator and could result in an out-of-bounds access to lcn_empty_bits_per_page.

Details

Affected product:
Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS
Affected packages:
linux @ 5.10.259 (+1 more)

Fixes