# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63999"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:56:17.383Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:42:52.556Z"
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-2026-63999"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63999.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63999"
title: "ethtool: rss: fix indir_table and hkey leak on get_rxfh failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nethtool: rss: fix indir_table and hkey leak on get_rxfh failure\n\nrss_prepare_get() allocates the indirection table and hash key buffer\nvia rss_get_data_alloc(), then calls ops-\u003eget_rxfh() to populate them.\nIf get_rxfh() fails, the function returns an error without freeing\nthe allocation."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c5ed0eaddcbda56079091fc3876b140a6e70a548","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14dbf22c397b799b3a80f63fc90c2fc0585bbeb3"},{"version":"a065b996052656a65afc51ad82336dc55ae4c72f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"323faef6366349f57d4ad67d318a0c8906e360b3"},{"version":"4f038a6a02d20859a3479293cbf172b0f14cbdd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33d05c22d6f227c5ae171c46df2f6f8bf48047ea"},{"version":"4f038a6a02d20859a3479293cbf172b0f14cbdd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80d95d92f828cfcace955d673637d944178b435f"},{"version":"4f038a6a02d20859a3479293cbf172b0f14cbdd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"266297692f97008ca48bc311775c087c59bd7fe3"},{"version":"81a5174e64ce4fb7b7a2f6499b835c904c9451ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ec9faff49a4ea27731de39cb887b7e590e93157b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"adee9db710a6117b978a25ed4153846b7c56ec9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5eb3fdc4b6281b29e830300c866a36d90442b1f0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.88","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.160"},{"version":"6.12.24","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.114"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.135","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.13.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.14.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","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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