CVE-2025-38108
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
- 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/110a47efcf23438ff8d31dbd9c854fae2a48bf98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2790c4ec481be45a80948d059cd7c9a06bc37493
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a71924ca4af59ffc00f0444732b6cd54b153d0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/444ad445df5496a785705019268a8a84b84484bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b755305b2b0618e857fdadb499365b5f2e478d1