CVE-2026-98141

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NTFS file system driver. When an index insertion fails during a reparse data update, the driver ignores the error and returns success instead of propagating the failure. A local user creating symbolic links or special files can trigger this issue, causing file creation operations to falsely report success even though required metadata was not saved to disk. This can result in file system data inconsistency and unexpected application failures.

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