{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72471 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72471 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72471 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72471 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72471 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-2026-72471/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72471/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72471","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72471/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72471","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72471","GHSA-w848-j2vg-qxfr","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72471"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel NTFS3","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An uninitialized variable in the Linux kernel NTFS3 driver can cause a kernel crash when seeking data, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: prevent potential lcn remains uninitialized\n\nThe target VCN being sought was not found within runs[0], causing\nrun_lookup() to return false. This causes run_lookup_entry() to return\nfalse, which in turn results in a len value of 0, and the new parameter\npassed to attr_data_get_block() is NULL. Collectively, these factors\nultimately cause attr_data_get_block_locked() to exit prematurely without\ninitializing lcn, thereby triggering [1].\n\nTo prevent [1], the clen check within ni_seek_data_or_hole() has been\nmoved to occur before the lcn check.\n\n[1]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ni_seek_data_or_hole+0x24f/0x5f0 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2862\n ni_seek_data_or_hole+0x24f/0x5f0 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2862\n ntfs_llseek+0x22a/0x4a0 fs/ntfs3/file.c:1530\n vfs_llseek fs/read_write.c:391 [inline]","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":"fs/ntfs3: prevent potential lcn remains uninitialized","id":"CVE-2026-72471","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"nfs: use nfsi-\u003erwsem to protect traversal of the file lock list","id":"CVE-2026-72472"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"fs/ntfs3: resize log-\u003eone_page_buf when adopting on-disk page size","id":"CVE-2026-72470"},"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":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"An uninitialized variable in the Linux kernel NTFS3 driver can cause a kernel crash when seeking data, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72471/"}