Bug 2507295 (CVE-2026-64296) - CVE-2026-64296 kernel: exfat: bound uniname advance in exfat_find_dir_entry()
Summary: CVE-2026-64296 kernel: exfat: bound uniname advance in exfat_find_dir_entry()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64296
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-25 10:15 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-12 20:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-25 10:15:02 UTC
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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