CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38193

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's SFQ (Stochastic Fairness Queueing) qdisc, a missing range check for the perturb period (perturb_period) was found. This can lead to integer overflow when multiplied by HZ and enable a race condition.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can set an invalid perturb_period value, potentially causing integer overflow and unpredictable queue behavior, including a race condition.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix, which adds range validation for perturb_period (must be positive and not cause overflow when multiplied by HZ).

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Original NVD description (English source)

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

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