Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: Avoid overflowing the user-space buffer during stats queries The ethtool -S command operates through three ioctl calls: - ETHTOOLGSSETINFO for the size of the statistics data; - ETHTOOLGSTRINGS for the names of the...

CVE-2025-68795

The CVE-2025-68795 issue affects Linux kernel ethtool statistics queries. If the number of stats changes between the three ioctl calls (ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO, ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS, ETHTOOL_GSTATS), userspace buffers may overflow. Some drivers (e.g., mlx5, bnx2x, bna, ksz884x) use dynamic counters, creat...