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Tracker / CVE-2026-63985

CVE-2026-63985

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: eeprom: add more safeties to EEPROM Netlink fallback The Netlink fallback path for reading module EEPROM (fallback_set_params()) validates that offset < eeprom_len, but does not check that offset + length stays within eeprom_len. The ioctl equivalent (ethtool_get_any_eeprom() in ioctl.c) has always enforced both bounds: if (eeprom.offset + eeprom.len > total_len) return -EINVAL; This could lead to surprises in both drivers and device FW. Add the missing offset + length validation to fallback_set_params(), mirroring the ioctl. Similarly - ethtool core in general, and ethtool_get_any_eeprom() in particular tries to zero-init all buffers passed to the drivers to avoid any extra work of zeroing things out. eeprom_fallback() uses a plain kmalloc(), change it to zalloc.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.13 → 5.15.210
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.176
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.35
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.12
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.143
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.93

Analysis

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