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CVE-2026-72208

Critical 9.8

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: add bounds check before accessing EA entries in ntfs_ea_lookup and ntfs_listxattr, this verifies that there is enough space in the EA entry before accessing the next_entry_offset field of the EA entry.

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Metrics

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICAL Score source: CNA CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
1% percentile: 47 · as of 11 November 2026

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