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CVE-2026-43245

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Published: May 6, 2026Modified: May 23, 2026

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7.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: ->d_compare() must not block ... so don't use __getname() there. Switch it (and ntfs_d_hash(), while we are at it) to kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_NOWAIT). Yes, ntfs_d_hash() almost certainly can do with smaller allocations, but let ntfs folks deal with that - keep the allocation size as-is for now. Stop abusing names_cachep in ntfs, period - various uses of that thing in there have nothing to do with pathnames; just use k[mz]alloc() and be done with that. For now let's keep sizes as-in, but AFAICS none of the users actually want PATH_MAX.

Affected (2)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel
1 product
Linux Kernel
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Linux
From 6.19 to 6.19.6
From 6.2 to 6.18.16

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