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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-64296

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/25/2026 6:17:10 AM

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Added Description

                  
                
              
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exfat: bound uniname advance in exfat_find_dir_entry()

In exfat_find_dir_entry(), each TYPE_EXTEND (file name) entry advances the
output pointer by a fixed amount while the loop guard only tracks the
accumulated name length:

	if (++order == 2)
		uniname = p_uniname->name;
	else
		uniname += EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN;
	len = exfat_extract_uni_name(ep, entry_uniname);
	name_len += len;
	unichar = *(uniname+len);
	*(uniname+len) = 0x0;

uniname grows by EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN (15) per name entry, but name_len
grows only by the actual extracted length, which is shorter when a name
fragment contains an early NUL.  The only guard is
`name_len >= MAX_NAME_LENGTH`, so a crafted directory with many short
name fragments lets uniname run far past the
p_uniname->name[MAX_NAME_LENGTH + 3] buffer while name_len stays small,
causing an out-of-bounds read and write at *(uniname+len).

The sibling extractor exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry() already stops
on a short fragment (the lockstep `len != EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN` guard
added in commit d42334578eba ("exfat: check if filename entries exceeds
max filename length")); exfat_find_dir_entry() never got the
equivalent.  Track the per-entry write offset as a count and reject a
fragment once the offset, or the offset plus the extracted length, would
exceed MAX_NAME_LENGTH, before forming the output pointer.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33c0b96d7e1672be1de0053786637ea46fb81507
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a1230e7b043c62737b05a3e9275ca83a43ad20a
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/727bf7783a2936ffd55c628dddfd69343e511dcf
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72a2589d82eb001c94b74bcfe6f9a599bd9bef60
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8e041c68c0bbb73aa62371ee63947bb6949d8b2
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce4736c1e6c4cfbf1ac409a8c328a0b69546c9a0
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf85180b8a015029ee147694eaf4e0b3537e9432
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fae76a94b35ee8c0e2eb6f64caca01d75c6d34e4
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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