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CVE-2025-71311
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-05-27T14:16:43.627 · Last modified 2026-06-25T21:04:05.197

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Initialize new folios before use KMSAN reports an uninitialized value in longest_match_std(), invoked from ntfs_compress_write(). When new folios are allocated without being marked uptodate and ni_read_frame() is skipped because the caller expects the frame to be completely overwritten, some reserved folios may remain only partially filled, leaving the rest memory uninitialized.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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