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CVE-2025-38193

net_sched: sch_sfq: reject invalid perturb period PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before e0936ff56be4e08ad5b60ec26971eae0c40af305; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 2254d038dab9c194fe6a4b1ce31034f42e91a6e5; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 956b5aebb349449b38d920d444ca1392d43719d1; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before b11a50544af691b787384089b68f740ae20a441b; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 0357da9149eac621f39e235a135ebf155f01f7c3; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before f9b97d466e6026ccbdda30bb5b71965b67ccbc82; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 590b2d7d0beadba2aa576708a05a05f0aae39295; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 7ca52541c05c832d32b112274f81a985101f9ba8
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.12; unaffected 0 before 2.6.12; unaffected 5.4.297 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.240 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.186 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.142 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.95 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.35 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.4 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

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