CVE-2026-90199

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

fs/ntfs3: reject out-of-range evcn in mi_enum_attr()

In mi_enum_attr(), the start/end VCN validation for non-resident attributes is:

if (svcn > evcn + 1) goto out;

When evcn is U64_MAX the evcn + 1 expression wraps to 0 and any svcn passes the check. For evcn values close to U64_MAX (but not equal to it) the right-hand side is still a meaningless near-wrap upper bound, so a malformed on-disk attribute with svcn == 0 and evcn near U64_MAX can pass mi_enum_attr() unrejected.

VCN (virtual cluster number) is a cluster index, so any valid evcn is bounded by the volumes total cluster count, which ntfs3 holds in sbi->used.bitmap.nbits (set up in ntfs_init_from_boot() before any caller of mi_enum_attr() runs). Reject evcn values that fall outside this range.

However, an empty non-resident attribute (no allocated clusters) is legitimately encoded with svcn == 0 and evcn == -1 (U64_MAX), e.g. via attr->nres.evcn = cpu_to_le64((u64)vcn - 1) with vcn == 0. That sentinel must keep passing, so exclude evcn == U64_MAX from the range check. The existing svcn > evcn + 1 test still tolerates the sentinel (0 > 0 is false) and continues to require svcn == 0 for it, while the range check rejects every other out-of-range evcn and thereby also defuses the evcn + 1 wraparound.

svcn does not need its own bound: once evcn < nbits, svcn > evcn + 1 implies svcn <= nbits.

[almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: fixed evcn check]

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0441e34ce098c19185a7b52c5b8b89a8a5b26888
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20fd9f64c0050658f2031e6bd5d552c6f0c8f7e3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b9a0e57bfd365e2096706b19ae34dce3b4a884b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ab69cef49ebdfee288287d62641b24ab1445ecc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce9a619c432b9a4044fee115c5483fbed946c131