CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-63999

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

A memory leak vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ethtool RSS functionality. The rss_prepare_get() function allocates buffers for the indirection table and hash key but fails to free them if the ops->get_rxfh() call fails.

Risk Assessment

This memory leak can gradually exhaust system resources, potentially leading to a denial of service (DoS) for processes using ethtool.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that addresses the memory leak in the rss_prepare_get() function.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: rss: fix indir_table and hkey leak on get_rxfh failure rss_prepare_get() allocates the indirection table and hash key buffer via rss_get_data_alloc(), then calls ops->get_rxfh() to populate them. If get_rxfh() fails, the function returns an error without freeing the allocation.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS