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FKIE_CVE-2025-38193

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-04 14:15 - Updated: 2026-10-15 22:18

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net_sched: sch_sfq: reject invalid perturb period Gerrard Tai reported that SFQ perturb_period has no range check yet, and this can be used to trigger a race condition fixed in a separate patch. We want to make sure ctl->perturb_period * HZ will not overflow and is positive. tc qd add dev lo root sfq perturb -10 # negative value : error Error: sch_sfq: invalid perturb period. tc qd add dev lo root sfq perturb 1000000000 # too big : error Error: sch_sfq: invalid perturb period. tc qd add dev lo root sfq perturb 2000000 # acceptable value tc -s -d qd sh dev lo qdisc sfq 8005: root refcnt 2 limit 127p quantum 64Kb depth 127 flows 128 divisor 1024 perturb 2000000sec Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) backlog 0b 0p requeues 0

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0357da9149eac621f39e235a135ebf155f01f7c3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2254d038dab9c194fe6a4b1ce31034f42e91a6e5	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/590b2d7d0beadba2aa576708a05a05f0aae39295	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ca52541c05c832d32b112274f81a985101f9ba8	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/956b5aebb349449b38d920d444ca1392d43719d1	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b11a50544af691b787384089b68f740ae20a441b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0936ff56be4e08ad5b60ec26971eae0c40af305	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9b97d466e6026ccbdda30bb5b71965b67ccbc82	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
debian	debian_linux	11.0

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CVE-2025-38193 (GCVE-0-2025-38193)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 13:37 – Updated: 2026-10-15 21:52

Title

net_sched: sch_sfq: reject invalid perturb period

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:48 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0936ff56be4e08ad…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2254d038dab9c194f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/956b5aebb349449b3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b11a50544af691b78…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0357da9149eac621f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9b97d466e6026ccb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/590b2d7d0beadba2a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ca52541c05c832d3…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < e0936ff56be4e08ad5b60ec26971eae0c40af305 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 2254d038dab9c194fe6a4b1ce31034f42e91a6e5 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 956b5aebb349449b38d920d444ca1392d43719d1 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < b11a50544af691b787384089b68f740ae20a441b (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 0357da9149eac621f39e235a135ebf155f01f7c3 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f9b97d466e6026ccbdda30bb5b71965b67ccbc82 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 590b2d7d0beadba2aa576708a05a05f0aae39295 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 7ca52541c05c832d32b112274f81a985101f9ba8 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.240 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.186 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.95 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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