CVE-2025-38457 (GCVE-0-2025-38457)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 15:27 – Updated: 2026-07-14 12:42
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
net/sched: Abort __tc_modify_qdisc if parent class does not exist
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: Abort __tc_modify_qdisc if parent class does not exist
Lion's patch [1] revealed an ancient bug in the qdisc API.
Whenever a user creates/modifies a qdisc specifying as a parent another
qdisc, the qdisc API will, during grafting, detect that the user is
not trying to attach to a class and reject. However grafting is
performed after qdisc_create (and thus the qdiscs' init callback) is
executed. In qdiscs that eventually call qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog
during init or change (such as fq, hhf, choke, etc), an issue
arises. For example, executing the following commands:
sudo tc qdisc add dev lo root handle a: htb default 2
sudo tc qdisc add dev lo parent a: handle beef fq
Qdiscs such as fq, hhf, choke, etc unconditionally invoke
qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() in their control path init() or change() which
then causes a failure to find the child class; however, that does not stop
the unconditional invocation of the assumed child qdisc's qlen_notify with
a null class. All these qdiscs make the assumption that class is non-null.
The solution is ensure that qdisc_leaf() which looks up the parent
class, and is invoked prior to qdisc_create(), should return failure on
not finding the class.
In this patch, we leverage qdisc_leaf to return ERR_PTRs whenever the
parentid doesn't correspond to a class, so that we can detect it
earlier on and abort before qdisc_create is called.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/d912cbd7-193b-4269-9857-525bee8bbb6a@gmail.com/
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
11 references
Impacted products
5 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6 , < 923a276c74e25073ae391e930792ac86a9f77f1e
(git)
Affected: 5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6 , < 90436e72c9622c2f70389070088325a3232d339f (git) Affected: 5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6 , < 25452638f133ac19d75af3f928327d8016952c8e (git) Affected: 5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6 , < 23c165dde88eac405eebb59051ea1fe139a45803 (git) Affected: 5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6 , < 4c691d1b6b6dbd73f30ed9ee7da05f037b0c49af (git) Affected: 5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6 , < 8ecd651ef24ab50123692a4e3e25db93cb11602a (git) Affected: 5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6 , < e28a383d6485c3bb51dc5953552f76c4dea33eea (git) Affected: 5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6 , < ffdde7bf5a439aaa1955ebd581f5c64ab1533963 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.20
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.20 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.296 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.240 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.189 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.146 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.99 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.39 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.7 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed | |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP |
Affected:
V3.1.5 , < *
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP |
Affected:
V3.1.5 , < *
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP |
Affected:
V3.1.5 , < *
(custom)
|
guessed |
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