{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "not yet assigned"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "7.0.12-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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:  \tgenlmsg_cancel(skb, ehdr); \treturn 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.",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63986",
  "modified": "2026-10-01T02:47:32.604527015Z",
  "published": "2026-07-19T16:17:17.847Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-63986"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-63986"
  ]
}