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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40928"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:25:07.769Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:22:32.708Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40928"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40928.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40928"
title: "net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool()\n\nClang static checker (scan-build) warning:\nnet/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2\nCalled function pointer is null (null dereference).\n\nReturn '-EOPNOTSUPP' when 'ops-\u003eget_ethtool_phy_stats' is NULL to fix\nthis typo error."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c882f2178f22f3740e20a6bd6b8df1c0500301bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25504f7fe60058b2a9553a9e424fb7dd9683843e"},{"version":"72d1c4a07780e24827c29bad203a1167d67181ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3ba0557ab2ef15a3663e2fb9b1a3d628a8c3daa"},{"version":"981c6e178cf333ac9568665e6d786f795f5cb3ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9e57e7ca77393b5b7072800370370b02eaad0f8"},{"version":"201ed315f9676809cd5b20a39206e964106d4f27","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6548d543a27449a1a3d8079925de93f5764d6f22"},{"version":"201ed315f9676809cd5b20a39206e964106d4f27","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"92196be82a4eb61813833dc62876fd198ae51ab1"},{"version":"201ed315f9676809cd5b20a39206e964106d4f27","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0dcc53abf58d572d34c5313de85f607cd33fc691"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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