# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63954"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:46.183Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:37:38.482Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-63954"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63954.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63954"
title: "hpfs: fix a crash if hpfs_map_dnode_bitmap fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhpfs: fix a crash if hpfs_map_dnode_bitmap fails\n\nIf hpfs_map_dnode_bitmap fails, the code would call hpfs_brelse4 on\nuninitialized quad buffer head, causing a crash."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"010b08084000ef018f1a8de5197087f3b91d8cfe"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d98d8562b3284b5a5c8eb67e71b794508e46e288"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1648a3c7f4e18f46a4881920133fc4f2494185a0"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c58c55a2a16f7274772507bd1637be609351b4f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d73a533760bc5abb83b3cc759133596f7bb708f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0886c6f257fe3663f80218aa1919b0f3f21bf22c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f37bb30b57d6d403d02673074555bd3c3602bef"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"974820a59efde7c1a7e1260bcfe9bb81f833cc9f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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