UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98139

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: only count successfully cleared runs when freeing clusters ntfsclusterfreefromrlnolock adds a run's length to nrfreed whenever the error bookkeeping condition is false, which includes cases where ntfsbitmapclearrun actually...

CVE-2026-98139

A vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's NTFS (New Technology File System) driver where the ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() function incorrectly increments the nr_freed counter even when ntfs_bitmap_clear_run() fails. Specifically, the function inflates vol->free_clusters when the error...