CVE-2026-63999

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ethtool subsystem, specifically within the Receive Side Scaling RSS functionality. The rssprepareget function fails to deallocate memory for the indirection table and hash key buffer if an internal operation ops-getrxfh does not complete successfully. This...

CVE-2026-63999

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: rss: fix indirtable and hkey leak on getrxfh failure rssprepareget allocates the indirection table and hash key buffer via rssgetdataalloc, then calls ops-getrxfh to populate them. If getrxfh fails, the function returns ...

CVE-2026-63999

The Linux kernel ethtool RSS issue CVE-2026-63999 is about a memory leak: rss_prepare_get() allocates the indirection table and hash key via rss_get_data_alloc() and calls ops->get_rxfh() to populate them. If get_rxfh() fails, the allocation is not freed, causing a leak. The connected document...