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CVE-2026-63986

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

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Linux

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • b9e3f7dc9ed95daeb83cfa45b821cacaa01aa906 to < 2008f9bb1ede9b688624a241228b8e54fc74f0f6affected
  • b9e3f7dc9ed95daeb83cfa45b821cacaa01aa906 to < d0d2c5ccd1de28368cebeef74d9c530a60eff9a5affected
  • b9e3f7dc9ed95daeb83cfa45b821cacaa01aa906 to < c3fc9976f686f9a95baf87db9d387f218fd65394affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.14affected
  • 0 to < 6.14unaffected
  • 6.18.35 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.0.12 to ≤ 7.0.*unaffected
  • 7.1 to ≤ *unaffected

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