CVE-2024-40928: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool() Clang static checker (scan-build) warning: net/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2 Called function pointer is null (null dereference). Return '-EOPNOTSUPP' when 'ops->get_ethtool_phy_stats' is NULL to fix this typo error.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.2, before 6.6.35 (fixed in 6.6.35); from 6.7, before 6.9.6 (fixed in 6.9.6); version 6.10 only

Published 2024-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.