CVE-2025-38108: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
net_sched: red: fix a race in __red_change()
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 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net_sched: red: fix a race in __red_change()
Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in RED, whenever SFQ perturb timer
fires at the wrong time.
The race is as follows:
CPU 0 CPU 1
[1]: lock root
[2]: qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
[3]: unlock root
|
| [5]: lock root
| [6]: rehash
| [7]: qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
|
[4]: qdisc_put()
This can be abused to underflow a parent's qlen.
Calling qdisc_purge_queue() instead of qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
should fix the race, because all packets will be purged from the qdisc
before releasing the lock.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/110a47efcf23438ff8d31dbd9c854fae2a48bf98https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2790c4ec481be45a80948d059cd7c9a06bc37493https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a71924ca4af59ffc00f0444732b6cd54b153d0ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/444ad445df5496a785705019268a8a84b84484bbhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b755305b2b0618e857fdadb499365b5f2e478d1https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85a3e0ede38450ea3053b8c45d28cf55208409b8https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1bf6a4e9264a685b0e642994031f9c5aad72414https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f569984417a4e12c67366e69bdcb752970de921dhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html