CVE-2026-68440
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CVE-2026-68440 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: txgbe: fix heap overflow when reading module EEPROM txgbe_read_eeprom_hostif() always copies round_up(length, 4) bytes into the caller buffer, which ethtool allocates with exactly 'length' bytes. A non-4-aligned length therefore causes an out-of-bounds write. Copy only the remaining bytes on the final dword instead..
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: txgbe: fix heap overflow when reading module EEPROM txgbe_read_eeprom_hostif() always copies round_up(length, 4) bytes into the caller buffer, which ethtool allocates with exactly 'length' bytes. A non-4-aligned length therefore causes an out-of-bounds write. Copy only the remaining bytes on the final dword instead.
Affected Software
Source: CNA advisory (CVE.org). NVD analysis pending.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= 9b97b6b5635b3de18debd07a3adcf25198ec8299, < febcced6958158e7e90a55a8567b3f5c3639c0b9; >= 9b97b6b5635b3de18debd07a3adcf25198ec8299, < 6a905a71fd43ce8b45f05044b11491337f232c9d |
| Linux | Linux | 6.19 |
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