CVE-2026-63985

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.

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.15.210) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.176) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.143) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.93) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.12) • linux linux kernel 7.1