CVE-2025-38107

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net_sched: ets: fix a race in ets_qdisc_change() Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in ETS, 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.

Impact & exploitability

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

Affected products we track (2)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0383b25488a545be168744336847549d4a2d3d6c ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0383b25488a545be168744336847549d4a2d3d6cPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/073f64c03516bcfaf790f8edc772e0cfb8a84ec3Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b479d0aa488cb478eb2e1d8868be946ac8afb4fPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/347867cb424edae5fec1622712c8dd0a2c42918fPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d92adacdd8c2960be856e0b82acc5b7c5395fddbPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb7b74e9754e1ba2088f914ad1f57a778b11894bPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fed94bd51d62d2e0e006aa61480e94e5cd0582b0Patch
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlAdvisory