CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37890
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-16
- Last modified
- 2026-07-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class with netem as child qdisc
As described in Gerrard's report [1], we have a UAF case when an hfsc class
has a netem child qdisc. The crux of the issue is that hfsc is assuming
that checking for cl->qdisc->q.qlen == 0 guarantees that it hasn't inserted
the class in the vttree or eltree (which is not true for the netem
duplicate case).
This patch checks the n_active class variable to make sure that the code
won't insert the class in the vttree or eltree twice, catering for the
reentrant case.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHcdcOm+03OD2j6R0=YHKqmy=VgJ8xEOKuP6c7mSgnp-TEJJbw@mail.gmail.com/
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.0.1 < 5.4.294)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.238)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.182)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.138)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.90)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.28)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.6)
• linux linux kernel 5.0
• linux linux kernel 6.15
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/141d34391abbb315d68556b7c67ad97885407547 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/273bbcfa53541cde38b2003ad88a59b770306421 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e7093c7a8aba5d4f8809f271488e5babe75e202 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6082a87af4c52f58150d40dec1716011d871ac21 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8df7d37d626430035b413b97cee18396b3450bef Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac39fd4a757584d78ed062d4f6fd913f83bd98b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0cf8ee23e1915431f262a7b2dee0c7a7d699af0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3e949a39a91d1f829a4890e7dfe9417ac72e4d0 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List