CVE-2025-37797 (GCVE-0-2025-37797)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 14:16 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:57
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling
This patch fixes a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the HFSC qdisc class
handling. The issue occurs due to a time-of-check/time-of-use condition
in hfsc_change_class() when working with certain child qdiscs like netem
or codel.
The vulnerability works as follows:
1. hfsc_change_class() checks if a class has packets (q.qlen != 0)
2. It then calls qdisc_peek_len(), which for certain qdiscs (e.g.,
codel, netem) might drop packets and empty the queue
3. The code continues assuming the queue is still non-empty, adding
the class to vttree
4. This breaks HFSC scheduler assumptions that only non-empty classes
are in vttree
5. Later, when the class is destroyed, this can lead to a Use-After-Free
The fix adds a second queue length check after qdisc_peek_len() to verify
the queue wasn't emptied.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-10 20:40 UTC
Assigner
References
10 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
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(git)
Affected: 21f4d5cc25ec0e6e8eb8420dd2c399e6d2fc7d14 , < 39b9095dd3b55d9b2743df038c32138efa34a9de (git) Affected: 21f4d5cc25ec0e6e8eb8420dd2c399e6d2fc7d14 , < fcc8ede663569c704fb00a702973bd6c00373283 (git) Affected: 21f4d5cc25ec0e6e8eb8420dd2c399e6d2fc7d14 , < 20d584a33e480ae80d105f43e0e7b56784da41b9 (git) Affected: 21f4d5cc25ec0e6e8eb8420dd2c399e6d2fc7d14 , < 3aa852e3605000d5c47035c3fc3a986d14ccfa9f (git) Affected: 21f4d5cc25ec0e6e8eb8420dd2c399e6d2fc7d14 , < 86cd4641c713455a4f1c8e54c370c598c2b1cee0 (git) Affected: 21f4d5cc25ec0e6e8eb8420dd2c399e6d2fc7d14 , < bb583c88d23b72d8d16453d24856c99bd93dadf5 (git) Affected: 21f4d5cc25ec0e6e8eb8420dd2c399e6d2fc7d14 , < 3df275ef0a6ae181e8428a6589ef5d5231e58b5c (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.293 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.237 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.181 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.136 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.89 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.26 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.14.5 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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