CVE-2026-63986
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63986
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-63986.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-63986
- Downstream
- Published
- 2026-07-19T14:56:08.203Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-21T03:47:44.192561728Z
- Summary
- ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on prepare failure
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERRPTR to genlmsgcancel on prepare failure
The goto err label leads to:
genlmsg_cancel(skb, ehdr); return ret;If ethnltsinfopreparedump() failed, it has not started a genlmsg. There's nothing to cancel, and passing an error pointer to genlmsgcancel() would cause a crash.
- Database specific
{ "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/63xxx/CVE-2026-63986.json", "cna_assigner": "Linux" }- References
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2008f9bb1ede9b688624a241228b8e54fc74f0f6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3fc9976f686f9a95baf87db9d387f218fd65394
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0d2c5ccd1de28368cebeef74d9c530a60eff9a5
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/63xxx/CVE-2026-63986.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63986
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git