{"id":"CVE-2026-63986","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-63986","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:28:21.273Z","title":"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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on prepare failure\n\nThe goto err label leads to:\n\n\tgenlmsg_cancel(skb, ehdr);\n\treturn ret;\n\nIf ethnl_tsinfo_prepare_dump() failed, it has not started a genlmsg.\nThere's nothing to cancel, and passing an error pointer to\ngenlmsg_cancel() would cause a crash.","published":"2026-07-19T16:17:18.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-08T14:47:43.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-763"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00121,"percentile":0.01881,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-07T22:30:11.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"5.5","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM."}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2008f9bb1ede9b688624a241228b8e54fc74f0f6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3fc9976f686f9a95baf87db9d387f218fd65394","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0d2c5ccd1de28368cebeef74d9c530a60eff9a5","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63986","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}