Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-56136 — azl3 ntfs-3g
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- azl3 ntfs-3g 2022.10.3-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 ntfs-3g 2022.10.3-4 on Azure Linux 3.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2022.10.3-4 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-56136
- EchelonGraph score
- 4.7 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
In NTFS-3G through 2026.2.25, an out-of-bounds read exists in ntfs_ir_nill() in libntfs-3g/index.c that allows an attacker to read possibly confidential information in an ntfs-3g process by crafting a malicious NTFS image. This read operation is triggered by creation of a file with a crafted name.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-56136, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).