# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63964"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:53.115Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-20T06:41:45.132Z"
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-2026-63964"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63964.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63964"
title: "usb: typec: ucsi: ccg: reject firmware images without a ':' record header"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: typec: ucsi: ccg: reject firmware images without a ':' record header\n\ndo_flash() locates the first .cyacd record with\n\n\tp = strnchr(fw-\u003edata, fw-\u003esize, ':');\n\twhile (p \u003c eof) {\n\t\ts = strnchr(p + 1, eof - p - 1, ':');\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\nIf the firmware image contains no ':' byte,  strnchr() returns NULL.\nNULL compares less than the valid kernel pointer eof, so the loop body\nruns and strnchr() is called with p + 1 == (void *)1 and a length of\nroughly (unsigned long)eof, causing a wonderful crash.\n\nThe not_signed_fw fallthrough earlier in do_flash() and the chip-state\nbranches in ccg_fw_update_needed() allow an unsigned blob to reach this\nloop, so a root user who can place a crafted file under /lib/firmware\nand write the do_flash sysfs attribute can trigger the oops.\n\nBail out with -EINVAL when the initial strnchr() returns NULL."
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