Answer in brief
CVE-2026-64296 records a High severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in exfat: bound uniname advance in exfat_find_dir_entry(). The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 7.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | Not reported | Not reported |
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 <72a2589d82eb001c94b74bcfe6f9a599bd9bef60 || >=ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 <fae76a94b35ee8c0e2eb6f64caca01d75c6d34e4 || >=ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 <cf85180b8a015029ee147694eaf4e0b3537e9432 || >=ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 <ce4736c1e6c4cfbf1ac409a8c328a0b69546c9a0 || >=ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 <727bf7783a2936ffd55c628dddfd69343e511dcf || >=ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 <33c0b96d7e1672be1de0053786637ea46fb81507 || >=ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 <c8e041c68c0bbb73aa62371ee63947bb6949d8b2 || >=ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 <3a1230e7b043c62737b05a3e9275ca83a43ad20a | 72a2589d82eb001c94b74bcfe6f9a599bd9bef60, fae76a94b35ee8c0e2eb6f64caca01d75c6d34e4, cf85180b8a015029ee147694eaf4e0b3537e9432, ce4736c1e6c4cfbf1ac409a8c328a0b69546c9a0, 727bf7783a2936ffd55c628dddfd69343e511dcf, 33c0b96d7e1672be1de0053786637ea46fb81507, c8e041c68c0bbb73aa62371ee63947bb6949d8b2, 3a1230e7b043c62737b05a3e9275ca83a43ad20a |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 5.7 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jul 25, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 17, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 5, 2026
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.
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