CVE-2026-72186

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NTFS driver. A local user could exploit this by writing to specific system files, such as $Bitmap, which are exposed through the showsysfiles interface. This unauthorized write access can lead to file system corruption and potentially cause a system deadlock...

CVE-2026-72186: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: make system files immutable to prevent corruption When a system file such as $Bitmap is exposed via showsysfiles and written from userspace, the volume is corrupted and, because the cluster allocator scans $Bitmap through t...