# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63995"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:56:14.580Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:18:01.681Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-63995"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63995.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63995"
title: "ethtool: cmis: validate start_cmd_payload_size from module"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nethtool: cmis: validate start_cmd_payload_size from module\n\nThe CMIS firmware update code reads start_cmd_payload_size from\nthe module's FW Management Features CDB reply and uses it directly\nas the byte count for memcpy. The destination buffer is 112 bytes\n(ETHTOOL_CMIS_CDB_LPL_MAX_PL_LENGTH - 8). So a malicious\nmodule (or corrupted response) can cause a OOB write later on in\ncmis_fw_update_start_download().\n\nLet's error out. If modules that expect longer LPL writes actually\nexist we should revisit.\n\nstruct cmis_cdb_start_fw_download_pl's definition has to move,\nno change there."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c4f78134d45c9619339c96b4bea380b1d0699788","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"63112b4515469d00008452d9cfe3fb3bf1aa2df3"},{"version":"c4f78134d45c9619339c96b4bea380b1d0699788","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0696709e951be54c699664adf546d16e28974d53"},{"version":"c4f78134d45c9619339c96b4bea380b1d0699788","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a46340da00385be7fb16c62425ebc20006f2d5d8"},{"version":"c4f78134d45c9619339c96b4bea380b1d0699788","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12c2496a71f82f63617971ca9b730dffa05cf58b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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