{"cve":"CVE-2026-64296","nvd":{"published":"2026-07-25T10:17:10.390","modified":"2026-10-19T21:17:30.130","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexfat: bound uniname advance in exfat_find_dir_entry()\n\nIn exfat_find_dir_entry(), each TYPE_EXTEND (file name) entry advances the\noutput pointer by a fixed amount while the loop guard only tracks the\naccumulated name length:\n\n\tif (++order == 2)\n\t\tuniname = p_uniname->name;\n\telse\n\t\tuniname += EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN;\n\tlen = exfat_extract_uni_name(ep, entry_uniname);\n\tname_len += len;\n\tunichar = *(uniname+len);\n\t*(uniname+len) = 0x0;\n\nuniname grows by EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN (15) per name entry, but name_len\ngrows only by the actual extracted length, which is shorter when a name\nfragment contains an early NUL.  The only guard is\n`name_len >= MAX_NAME_LENGTH`, so a crafted directory with many short\nname fragments lets uniname run far past the\np_uniname->name[MAX_NAME_LENGTH + 3] buffer while name_len stays small,\ncausing an out-of-bounds read and write at *(uniname+len).\n\nThe sibling extractor exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry() already stops\non a short fragment (the lockstep `len != EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN` guard\nadded in commit d42334578eba (\"exfat: check if filename entries exceeds\nmax filename length\")); exfat_find_dir_entry() never got the\nequivalent.  Track the per-entry write offset as a count and reject a\nfragment once the offset, or the offset plus the extracted length, would\nexceed MAX_NAME_LENGTH, before forming the output pointer.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-787"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33c0b96d7e1672be1de0053786637ea46fb81507","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a1230e7b043c62737b05a3e9275ca83a43ad20a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/727bf7783a2936ffd55c628dddfd69343e511dcf","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72a2589d82eb001c94b74bcfe6f9a599bd9bef60","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8e041c68c0bbb73aa62371ee63947bb6949d8b2"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-21T03:43:09.190223697+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-64296","score":0.00169,"percentile":0.06257,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}