# 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-2026-64028"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:39:19.102Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-19T15:39:19.102Z"
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-2026-64028"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64028.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64028"
title: "tracing: Avoid NULL return from hist_field_name() on truncation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Avoid NULL return from hist_field_name() on truncation\n\nhist_field_name() returns \"\" everywhere except the fully-qualified\nVAR_REF/EXPR case, where snprintf() truncation returns NULL early\nand bypasses the bottom NULL-\u003e\"\" guard. Callers don't expect NULL:\nstrcat(expr, hist_field_name(field, 0)) at trace_events_hist.c:1758\nand the strcmp() in the sort-key match loop at :4804 both deref it.\n\nsystem and event_name are bounded by MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN, but the\nfield name on a VAR_REF is kstrdup'd from a histogram variable\nname parsed out of the trigger string and has no length cap, so\na long enough var name in a fully qualified reference can reach\nthe truncation path.\n\nKeep the length check but leave field_name as \"\" on overflow."
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