CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-37798

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the CoDel mechanism had a redundant qlen check before calling qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog(). The fix makes qlen_notify callbacks idempotent.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to incorrect queue management, potentially resulting in network congestion or system crash.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: codel: remove sch->q.qlen check before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() After making all ->qlen_notify() callbacks idempotent, now it is safe to remove the check of qlen!=0 from both fq_codel_dequeue() and codel_qdisc_dequeue().

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