CVE•Published 2026-07-19•Modified 2026-10-08•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-63986Linux · Linux_kernel
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CVSS v3.1
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
5
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 95% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-07-19
Modified 2026-10-08
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