{"id":"CVE-2026-63998","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-63998","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:35:36.703Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: module: call ethnl_ops_complete() on module flash errors When validate() fails we are skipping over ethnl_ops_complete() even tho we already called ethnl_ops_begin().","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nethtool: module: call ethnl_ops_complete() on module flash errors\n\nWhen validate() fails we are skipping over ethnl_ops_complete()\neven tho we already called ethnl_ops_begin().","published":"2026-07-19T16:17:39.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-21T13:19:19.000Z","status":"Modified","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":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00122,"percentile":0.01947,"date":"2026-10-27","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":"2026-10-13T16:45:05.000Z","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/170d82a57f4be1ce83de823a93bafd218a0d5fb1","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84371fb58423f997939aacdcbc02d128d76a54e5","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9defbf8b62bde89e206d74c2a2b445b9ed66108","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e96ef1a40dda5b637b1911cd950b11e9848de939","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63998","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."}