Release Date: | 2025-07-03 | |
Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net_sched: red: fix a race in __red_change() Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in RED, 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.
See more information about CVE-2025-38108 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score: | 7.0 |
Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Version: | 3.1 |
Attack Vector: | Local |
Attack Complexity: | High |
Privileges Required: | Low |
User Interaction: | None |
Scope: | Unchanged |
Confidentiality Impact: | High |
Integrity Impact: | High |
Availability Impact: | High |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20551 | 2025-09-08 |
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20552 | 2025-09-08 |
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20551 | 2025-09-08 |
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20552 | 2025-09-08 |
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