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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-63986

CVE-2026-63986

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Open
TLP:CLEAR

ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on prepare failure

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on prepare failure The goto err label leads to: genlmsg_cancel(skb, ehdr); return ret; If ethnl_tsinfo_prepare_dump() failed, it has not started a genlmsg. There's nothing to cancel, and passing an error pointer to genlmsg_cancel() would cause a crash.

Details

EPSS Score
0.17%

6.2th percentile

Confidence
90%
Published
Jul 19, 2026
Last Modified
Jul 19, 2026
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