# 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-2026-64296"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:49:33.847Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:38:22.402Z"
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-2026-64296"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64296.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64296"
title: "exfat: bound uniname advance in exfat_find_dir_entry()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexfat: bound uniname advance in exfat_find_dir_entry()\n\nIn exfat_find_dir_entry(), each TYPE_EXTEND (file name) entry advances the\noutput pointer by a fixed amount while the loop guard only tracks the\naccumulated name length:\n\n\tif (++order == 2)\n\t\tuniname = p_uniname-\u003ename;\n\telse\n\t\tuniname += EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN;\n\tlen = exfat_extract_uni_name(ep, entry_uniname);\n\tname_len += len;\n\tunichar = *(uniname+len);\n\t*(uniname+len) = 0x0;\n\nuniname grows by EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN (15) per name entry, but name_len\ngrows only by the actual extracted length, which is shorter when a name\nfragment contains an early NUL.  The only guard is\n`name_len \u003e= MAX_NAME_LENGTH`, so a crafted directory with many short\nname fragments lets uniname run far past the\np_uniname-\u003ename[MAX_NAME_LENGTH + 3] buffer while name_len stays small,\ncausing an out-of-bounds read and write at *(uniname+len).\n\nThe sibling extractor exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry() already stops\non a short fragment (the lockstep `len != EXFAT_FILE_NAME_LEN` guard\nadded in commit d42334578eba (\"exfat: check if filename entries exceeds\nmax filename length\")); exfat_find_dir_entry() never got the\nequivalent.  Track the per-entry write offset as a count and reject a\nfragment once the offset, or the offset plus the extracted length, would\nexceed MAX_NAME_LENGTH, before forming the output pointer."
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