ntfs-3g-ntfsprogs: fix CVE-2026-42618

This patch applies the upstream fixes shown in [1] and [2]. The NVD
record describing the vulnerability is referenced in [3].

[1] https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/commit/e021cbe3d7a42963110e4561f2a1327614c20a00
[2] https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/commit/6aa66d98980ac1d966d7977c7b079f4fe380eb42
[3] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42618

Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <dkelaiya@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@oss.qualcomm.com>
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Darsh Kelaiya authored and Anuj Mittal committed 2026-10-26 10:10:50 +05:30
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From fbc829df733e7aa960780e0c60d26a0b63786a38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Larsson <erik@tuxera.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:06:24 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] compress.c: Fix incorrect comparison in destination bounds
check.
When checking whether 'dest' was at or past the end of the destination
buffer we were checking if 'dest' was larger then 'dest_sb_end', however
'dest_sb_end' is already past the end of the destination buffer since
it is constructed with 'dest + dest_size', i.e. dereferencing
'dest_sb_end' is invalid. Fixed by using '>=' instead of '>'.
Thanks to Alexandro Calo' from Nozomi Networks Labs for reporting this
issue.
CVE: CVE-2026-42618
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/commit/e021cbe3d7a42963110e4561f2a1327614c20a00]
Backport Changes:
- Upstream e021cbe3 follows the indentation changes in 6c67a098.
Apply its two bounds checks to the original ntfs_decompress() layout
in libntfs-3g/compress.c from NTFS-3G 2022.10.3.
- Preserve both upstream dest >= dest_sb_end checks so the tag and
token paths stop before accessing the end of the destination buffer.
(cherry picked from commit e021cbe3d7a42963110e4561f2a1327614c20a00)
Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <dkelaiya@cisco.com>
---
libntfs-3g/compress.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libntfs-3g/compress.c b/libntfs-3g/compress.c
index 390b2d97..5f4df0ea 100644
--- a/libntfs-3g/compress.c
+++ b/libntfs-3g/compress.c
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ do_next_tag:
goto do_next_sb;
}
/* Check we are still in range. */
- if (cb > cb_sb_end || dest > dest_sb_end)
+ if (cb > cb_sb_end || dest >= dest_sb_end)
goto return_overflow;
/* Get the next tag and advance to first token. */
tag = *cb++;
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ do_next_tag:
u8 *dest_back_addr;
/* Check if we are done / still in range. */
- if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dest > dest_sb_end)
+ if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dest >= dest_sb_end)
break;
/* Determine token type and parse appropriately.*/
if ((tag & NTFS_TOKEN_MASK) == NTFS_SYMBOL_TOKEN) {
@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
From 8221131a1dea1a06e7a8134a04b0a68975f58829 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:33:52 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] compress.c: Harden LZNT1 sub-block decompression bounds
checks.
ntfs_decompress() could continue decoding tokens after the current
4 KiB destination sub-block was already full. If the next token was a
symbol token, the decoder wrote one byte at dest_sb_end, outside the
valid destination range.
Finish the current compressed sub-block when either its compressed input
is exhausted or its output sub-block is full. If the output fills
first, skip the remaining bytes in that compressed sub-block so they are
not interpreted as more tags or tokens.
While here, read the sub-block header only after verifying that two
input bytes remain, reuse the decoded header value, and reject truncated
phrase tokens before reading their two-byte compressed word.
Also fix the function comment to match the userspace return convention:
return 0 on success, or return -1 with errno set to EOVERFLOW on
malformed compressed input.
Thanks to Alexandro Calo' from Nozomi Networks Labs for reporting this
issue.
CVE: CVE-2026-42618
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/commit/6aa66d98980ac1d966d7977c7b079f4fe380eb42]
Backport Changes:
- Upstream 6aa66d98 follows the loop indentation changes in 6c67a098.
Apply its ntfs_decompress() changes in libntfs-3g/compress.c to
the original NTFS-3G 2022.10.3 layout, omitting those extra scopes.
- Keep the two-byte header and phrase-token checks, stop decoding
when the output sub-block is full, and skip its remaining input.
Retain upstream finish_compressed_sb and complete labels unchanged.
(cherry picked from commit 6aa66d98980ac1d966d7977c7b079f4fe380eb42)
Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <dkelaiya@cisco.com>
---
libntfs-3g/compress.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 68 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libntfs-3g/compress.c b/libntfs-3g/compress.c
index 5f4df0ea..e32c2288 100644
--- a/libntfs-3g/compress.c
+++ b/libntfs-3g/compress.c
@@ -459,7 +459,8 @@ static unsigned int ntfs_compress_block(const char *inbuf, const int bufsize,
* @cb_start is a pointer to the compression block which needs decompressing
* and @cb_size is the size of @cb_start in bytes (8-64kiB).
*
- * Return 0 if success or -EOVERFLOW on error in the compressed stream.
+ * Return 0 on success. On error in the compressed stream, set errno to
+ * EOVERFLOW and return -1.
*/
static int ntfs_decompress(u8 *dest, const u32 dest_size,
u8 *const cb_start, const u32 cb_size)
@@ -479,23 +480,29 @@ static int ntfs_decompress(u8 *dest, const u32 dest_size,
/* Variables for tag and token parsing. */
u8 tag; /* Current tag. */
int token; /* Loop counter for the eight tokens in tag. */
+ u16 hdr; /* Current sub-block header. */
ntfs_log_trace("Entering, cb_size = 0x%x.\n", (unsigned)cb_size);
do_next_sb:
ntfs_log_debug("Beginning sub-block at offset = %d in the cb.\n",
(int)(cb - cb_start));
/*
- * Have we reached the end of the compression block or the end of the
- * decompressed data? The latter can happen for example if the current
- * position in the compression block is one byte before its end so the
- * first two checks do not detect it.
+ * Have we reached the end of the compression block or the end
+ * of the decompressed data?
+ *
+ * Check dest == dest_end before reading the next two-byte sub-
+ * block header. The compressed pointer can legally be near the
+ * end of the buffer when the requested output has already been
+ * produced.
*/
- if (cb == cb_end || !le16_to_cpup((le16*)cb) || dest == dest_end) {
- if (dest_end > dest)
- memset(dest, 0, dest_end - dest);
- ntfs_log_debug("Completed. Returning success (0).\n");
- return 0;
- }
+ if (cb == cb_end || dest == dest_end)
+ goto complete;
+ /* A sub-block header is two bytes. */
+ if ((size_t)(cb_end - cb) < 2)
+ goto return_overflow;
+ hdr = le16_to_cpup((le16*)cb);
+ if (!hdr)
+ goto complete;
/* Setup offset for the current sub-block destination. */
dest_sb_start = dest;
dest_sb_end = dest + NTFS_SB_SIZE;
@@ -503,16 +510,15 @@ do_next_sb:
if (dest_sb_end > dest_end)
goto return_overflow;
/* Does the minimum size of a compressed sb overflow valid range? */
- if (cb + 6 > cb_end)
+ if ((size_t)(cb_end - cb) < 6)
goto return_overflow;
/* Setup the current sub-block source pointers and validate range. */
cb_sb_start = cb;
- cb_sb_end = cb_sb_start + (le16_to_cpup((le16*)cb) & NTFS_SB_SIZE_MASK)
- + 3;
+ cb_sb_end = cb_sb_start + (hdr & NTFS_SB_SIZE_MASK) + 3;
if (cb_sb_end > cb_end)
goto return_overflow;
/* Now, we are ready to process the current sub-block (sb). */
- if (!(le16_to_cpup((le16*)cb) & NTFS_SB_IS_COMPRESSED)) {
+ if (!(hdr & NTFS_SB_IS_COMPRESSED)) {
ntfs_log_debug("Found uncompressed sub-block.\n");
/* This sb is not compressed, just copy it into destination. */
/* Advance source position to first data byte. */
@@ -532,22 +538,18 @@ do_next_sb:
/* Forward to the first tag in the sub-block. */
cb += 2;
do_next_tag:
- if (cb == cb_sb_end) {
- /* Check if the decompressed sub-block was not full-length. */
- if (dest < dest_sb_end) {
- int nr_bytes = dest_sb_end - dest;
-
- ntfs_log_debug("Filling incomplete sub-block with zeroes.\n");
- /* Zero remainder and update destination position. */
- memset(dest, 0, nr_bytes);
- dest += nr_bytes;
- }
- /* We have finished the current sub-block. */
- goto do_next_sb;
- }
/* Check we are still in range. */
- if (cb > cb_sb_end || dest >= dest_sb_end)
+ if (cb > cb_sb_end || dest > dest_sb_end)
goto return_overflow;
+ /*
+ * Finish this compressed sub-block when either its
+ * compressed input is exhausted or its 4 KiB output
+ * slot is full. If output becomes full first, skip the
+ * remaining compressed bytes in this sub-block instead
+ * of interpreting them as more tags/tokens.
+ */
+ if (cb == cb_sb_end || dest == dest_sb_end)
+ goto finish_compressed_sb;
/* Get the next tag and advance to first token. */
tag = *cb++;
/* Parse the eight tokens described by the tag. */
@@ -557,8 +559,10 @@ do_next_tag:
u8 *dest_back_addr;
/* Check if we are done / still in range. */
- if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dest >= dest_sb_end)
- break;
+ if (cb > cb_sb_end || dest > dest_sb_end)
+ goto return_overflow;
+ if (cb == cb_sb_end || dest == dest_sb_end)
+ goto finish_compressed_sb;
/* Determine token type and parse appropriately.*/
if ((tag & NTFS_TOKEN_MASK) == NTFS_SYMBOL_TOKEN) {
/*
@@ -570,11 +574,21 @@ do_next_tag:
continue;
}
/*
- * We have a phrase token. Make sure it is not the first tag in
- * the sb as this is illegal and would confuse the code below.
+ * We have a phrase token. Make sure it is not
+ * the first token in the sb as this is illegal
+ * and would confuse the code below.
*/
if (dest == dest_sb_start)
goto return_overflow;
+ /*
+ * A phrase token is a two-byte compressed word.
+ * The generic token check above only proves
+ * that at least one byte remains, which is
+ * enough for a symbol token but not for a
+ * phrase token.
+ */
+ if ((size_t)(cb_sb_end - cb) < 2)
+ goto return_overflow;
/*
* Determine the number of bytes to go back (p) and the number
* of bytes to copy (l). We use an optimized algorithm in which
@@ -626,6 +640,27 @@ do_next_tag:
}
/* No tokens left in the current tag. Continue with the next tag. */
goto do_next_tag;
+finish_compressed_sb:
+ /* Check if the decompressed sub-block was not full-length. */
+ if (dest < dest_sb_end) {
+ size_t nr_bytes = dest_sb_end - dest;
+
+ ntfs_log_debug("Filling incomplete sub-block with zeroes.\n");
+ /* Zero remainder and update destination position. */
+ memset(dest, 0, nr_bytes);
+ dest += nr_bytes;
+ }
+ /*
+ * If the output sub-block filled before the compressed sub-block input
+ * was exhausted, skip the remaining compressed bytes in this sub-block.
+ */
+ cb = cb_sb_end;
+ goto do_next_sb;
+complete:
+ if (dest_end > dest)
+ memset(dest, 0, dest_end - dest);
+ ntfs_log_debug("Completed. Returning success (0).\n");
+ return 0;
return_overflow:
errno = EOVERFLOW;
ntfs_log_perror("Failed to decompress file");
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ SRC_URI = "http://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-${PV}.tgz \
file://CVE-2026-46571.patch \
file://CVE-2026-46570.patch \
file://CVE-2026-46569.patch \
file://CVE-2026-42618_p1.patch \
file://CVE-2026-42618_p2.patch \
"
S = "${WORKDIR}/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-${PV}"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f20e36ee68074b845e3629e6bced4706ad053804cbaf062fbae60738f854170c"