CVE-2025-71311

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's fs/ntfs3 component. When new memory pages folios are allocated for the NTFS3 file system without being properly initialized, and a read operation is skipped, parts of these folios may contain uninitialized memory. This can lead to a memory corruption...

CVE-2025-71311 fs/ntfs3: Initialize new folios before use

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Initialize new folios before use KMSAN reports an uninitialized value in longestmatchstd, invoked from ntfscompresswrite. When new folios are allocated without being marked uptodate and nireadframe is skipped because th...