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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63808" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:02:11.323Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:48.432Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63808" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63808.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63808" title: "exfat: fix potential use-after-free in exfat_find_dir_entry()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexfat: fix potential use-after-free in exfat_find_dir_entry()\n\nIn exfat_find_dir_entry(), the buffer_head obtained from\nexfat_get_dentry() is released with brelse(bh) before the fall-through\nTYPE_EXTEND branch reads the directory entry through ep (which points\ninto bh-\u003eb_data):\n\n\tbrelse(bh);\n\tif (entry_type == TYPE_EXTEND) {\n\t\t...\n\t\tlen = exfat_extract_uni_name(ep, entry_uniname);\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\nAfter brelse() drops our reference, nothing guarantees that the\nunderlying page backing bh-\u003eb_data remains valid for the subsequent\nexfat_extract_uni_name() read. This is the same pattern fixed in\ncommit fc961522ddbd (\"exfat: Fix potential use after free in\nexfat_load_upcase_table()\").\n\nMove brelse(bh) so it runs after ep is no longer dereferenced on\neach branch.\n\nConfirmed on QEMU x86_64 with CONFIG_KASAN=y + CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y\n+ CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y on linux-next, using a crafted exFAT image\n(long filename with same-hash collisions forcing the TYPE_EXTEND path).\nWith a debug-only invalidate_bdev() inserted between brelse(bh) and\nthe ep read to make the stale-deref window deterministic, the\nunpatched kernel faults:\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in exfat_find_dir_entry+0x133b/0x15a0\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff88801a5fa0c2\n Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI\n RIP: 0010:exfat_find_dir_entry+0x1188/0x15a0\n\nWith this patch applied, the same instrumented harness completes\ncleanly under the same sanitizer stack. I have not reproduced a\ncrash on an uninstrumented kernel under ordinary reclaim; the\ninstrumented A/B establishes the lifetime violation and that the\npatch closes it, not an unaided triggerability claim." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6f1a11cfb808441a43ffae9b476cc135732cd27"},{"version":"ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e48f413c2815787b8cade2795e194e3c4cd782ef"},{"version":"ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06c4e1e9967d332ac33ba38b7819851089ff9359"},{"version":"ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e0abc17fbd7e305802e84fe98b4950d50f9c433"},{"version":"ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d101016d5e587f820b3ae2d5bb6770d86342649"},{"version":"ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"adfacfbaeae2cb760f492357cc36b41f84ef7f86"},{"version":"ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"708b97e792945d3e4653939fd3405d71a61ad065"},{"version":"ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f5f8ee9917cc2b9076ac533492d8a200edcabb8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.260","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.211","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.144","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.38","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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