What is CVE-2026-72207?

CVE-2026-72207 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability. CVE-2026-72207 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2026-72207?

CVE-2026-72207 has a CVSS score of pending NVD analysis out of 10, rated awaiting scoring severity.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2026-72207?

Yes, CVE-2026-72207 has been patched. Fixed versions include 7.1.5 and 7.2-rc1.

Is CVE-2026-72207 actively exploited?

CVE-2026-72207 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2026-72207

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: not change 0-byte $DATA attribute to non-resident When ntfs_resident_attr_resize() cannot grow a resident attribute in place, it retries after converting other resident attributes to non-resident to free space in the MFT recrord. Do not select zero-length resident $DATA attributes for this conversion. fsck treats 0-byte non-resident $DATA attribute as corruptions.

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2026-08-15

Last modified 2026-08-15

Patch available

Yes

Affected versions

Fixed in 7.1.5, 7.2-rc1 and their respective stable series.

Fixed in

✓ 7.1.5 7.1.x ✓ 7.2-rc1

References

2 total

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-72207?

CVE-2026-72207 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability . CVE-2026-72207 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2026-72207?

Yes. CVE-2026-72207 has been patched. Fixed versions include 7.1.5 and 7.2-rc1.
Is CVE-2026-72207 actively exploited?

No. CVE-2026-72207 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.