CVE-2026-63808

published 2026-07-19

CVE-2026-63808: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix potential use-after-free in exfat_find_dir_entry() In exfat_find_dir_entry()…

Priority P3 49 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exfat: fix potential use-after-free in exfat_find_dir_entry()

In exfat_find_dir_entry(), the buffer_head obtained from
exfat_get_dentry() is released with brelse(bh) before the fall-through
TYPE_EXTEND branch reads the directory entry through ep (which points
into bh->b_data):

brelse(bh);
if (entry_type == TYPE_EXTEND) {
...
len = exfat_extract_uni_name(ep, entry_uniname);
...
}

After brelse() drops our reference, nothing guarantees that the
underlying page backing bh->b_data remains valid for the subsequent
exfat_extract_uni_name() read. This is the same pattern fixed in
commit fc961522ddbd ("exfat: Fix potential use after free in
exfat_load_upcase_table()").

Move brelse(bh) so it runs after ep is no longer dereferenced on
each branch.

Confirmed on QEMU x86_64 with CONFIG_KASAN=y + CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
+ CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y on linux-next, using a crafted exFAT image
(long filename with same-hash collisions forcing the TYPE_EXTEND path).
With a debug-only invalidate_bdev() inserted between brelse(bh) and
the ep read to make the stale-deref window deterministic, the
unpatched kernel faults:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in exfat_find_dir_entry+0x133b/0x15a0
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff88801a5fa0c2
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI
RIP: 0010:exfat_find_dir_entry+0x1188/0x15a0

With this patch applied, the same instrumented harness completes
cleanly under the same sanitizer stack. I have not reproduced a
crash on an uninstrumented kernel under ordinary reclaim; the
instrumented A/B establishes the lifetime violation and that the
patch closes it, not an unaided triggerability claim.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 < e6f1a11cfb808441a43ffae9b476cc135732cd27	e6f1a11cfb808441a43ffae9b476cc135732cd27
linux	linux	>= ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 < e48f413c2815787b8cade2795e194e3c4cd782ef	e48f413c2815787b8cade2795e194e3c4cd782ef
linux	linux	>= ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 < 06c4e1e9967d332ac33ba38b7819851089ff9359	06c4e1e9967d332ac33ba38b7819851089ff9359
linux	linux	>= ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 < 8e0abc17fbd7e305802e84fe98b4950d50f9c433	8e0abc17fbd7e305802e84fe98b4950d50f9c433
linux	linux	>= ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 < 4d101016d5e587f820b3ae2d5bb6770d86342649	4d101016d5e587f820b3ae2d5bb6770d86342649
linux	linux	>= ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 < adfacfbaeae2cb760f492357cc36b41f84ef7f86	adfacfbaeae2cb760f492357cc36b41f84ef7f86
linux	linux	>= ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 < 708b97e792945d3e4653939fd3405d71a61ad065	708b97e792945d3e4653939fd3405d71a61ad065
linux	linux	>= ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 < 3f5f8ee9917cc2b9076ac533492d8a200edcabb8	3f5f8ee9917cc2b9076ac533492d8a200edcabb8
linux	linux_kernel	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

vendor_redhat 9.8 CRITICAL

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