Kernel memory corruption via wrapped volume-boundary addition
Published May 27, 2026 · Updated May 27, 2026
Integer overflow in the NTFS3 run_unpack() parser in affected Linux Kernel releases allows attackers to corrupt memory via a crafted volume. The volume-boundary check adds lcn and len without overflow detection, so wraparound lets an invalid cluster range pass validation. Exploitation requires a victim to mount or access the attacker-supplied image or removable media; the bypass permits out-of-bounds reads and writes, filesystem corruption, or a kernel panic.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in the NTFS3 run_unpack() parser in affected Linux Kernel releases allows attackers to corrupt memory via a crafted volume. The volume-boundary check adds lcn and len without overflow detection, so wraparound lets an invalid cluster range pass validation. Exploitation requires a victim to mount or access the attacker-supplied image or removable media; the bypass permits out-of-bounds reads and writes, filesystem corruption, or a kernel panic.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-46062
- Published
- May 27, 2026
- Updated
- May 27, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux Kernel
- Classifications
- CWE-190
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- May 27, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 27, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.15
- Affected versionversion=82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 <60dab3e2931f3d792438a77a6cb0cb731c43300b
- Affected versionversion=82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 <6175d09c23bec4b60860ee9a0170308ff4b56e10
- Affected versionversion=82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 <984a415f019536ea2d24de9010744e5302a9a948
- Affected versionversion=82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 <a954061b334ec67c79ae9d0cadd83fa521396487
- Affected versionversion=82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 <f1af27cec07a9fd0847166bdb23c99e86b05bfdc
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