CVE-2026-64296

Technical 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()

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References