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CVE-2026-63986

N/A CVSS: N/A Published: 2026-07-19 Modified: 2026-07-30

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 Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

Unknown

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