CVE-2026-64296

exfat: bound uniname advance in exfat_find_dir_entry()

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 25, 2026 at 08:49 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.2125.16 ≤ v < 6.1.1785.7 ≤ v < 5.10.2616.13 ≤ v < 6.18.396.19 ≤ v < 7.1.46.2 ≤ v < 6.6.1456.7 ≤ v < 6.12.965.7ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341
Vendor states this is fixed in 33c0b96d7e1672be1de0053786637ea46fb81507 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3a1230e7b043c62737b05a3e9275ca83a43ad20a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 727bf7783a2936ffd55c628dddfd69343e511dcf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 72a2589d82eb001c94b74bcfe6f9a599bd9bef60 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c8e041c68c0bbb73aa62371ee63947bb6949d8b2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ce4736c1e6c4cfbf1ac409a8c328a0b69546c9a0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cf85180b8a015029ee147694eaf4e0b3537e9432 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fae76a94b35ee8c0e2eb6f64caca01d75c6d34e4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.261 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.212 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.178 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.96 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.39 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.145 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-787

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