CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-63986

Low risk· EPSS 6%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability in the ethtool tsinfo function passes an ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on dump preparation failure, potentially causing a system crash.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves a local user or process triggering a kernel panic, leading to system downtime and possible data loss.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that prevents passing ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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