CVE-2025-37890: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class with netem as child qdisc
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 89% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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/
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/141d34391abbb315d68556b7c67ad97885407547https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/273bbcfa53541cde38b2003ad88a59b770306421https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e7093c7a8aba5d4f8809f271488e5babe75e202https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6082a87af4c52f58150d40dec1716011d871ac21https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8df7d37d626430035b413b97cee18396b3450befhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac39fd4a757584d78ed062d4f6fd913f83bd98b5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0cf8ee23e1915431f262a7b2dee0c7a7d699af0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3e949a39a91d1f829a4890e7dfe9417ac72e4d0https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html