{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72204 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72204 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72204 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72204 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72204 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72204/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72204/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72204","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72204/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72204","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72204","GHSA-2vp7-pvhw-wqqx","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72204"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Insufficient validation of NTFS index root headers in the Linux kernel allows attackers to trigger memory corruption, potentially leading to code execution or system crashes.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.4,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: centalize $INDEX_ROOT header validation\n\nAdd a dedicated helper to perform stricter validation of $INDEX_ROOT and\nuse it for both directory inodes and named index inodes. This keeps the\nroot size and header geometry checks consistent across both read paths.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ntfs: centalize $INDEX_ROOT header validation","id":"CVE-2026-72204","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"ntfs: free volume-wide resources on fill_super failure","id":"CVE-2026-72205"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ntfs: skip extent mft records in writeback to prevent deadlock","id":"CVE-2026-72203"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-18","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"Insufficient validation of NTFS index root headers in the Linux kernel allows attackers to trigger memory corruption, potentially leading to code execution or system crashes.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72204/"}