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CVE-2026-72036

net/sched: sch_multiq: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_multiq: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked multiq_dequeue() takes a packet from a band's child with a direct ->dequeue() call after multiq_peek() peeked it. When the child is non-work-conserving the peek stashes the skb in the child's gso_skb, so the direct dequeue returns a different skb and orphans the stash, desyncing the child's qlen/backlog. With a qfq child reached through a peeking parent (e.g. tbf) this re-enters the child on an emptied list and dereferences NULL, panicking the kernel from softirq on ordinary egress. Take the packet through qdisc_dequeue_peeked(), as sch_prio already does and as sch_red and sch_sfb were just fixed to do. The helper is a no-op when the child has no stash, so a work-conserving child is unaffected.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 77be155cba4e163e8bba9fd27222a8b6189ec4f7 before 3e5fd9d14f2d228e7260251f2e4a1d41ba8f705a; affected 77be155cba4e163e8bba9fd27222a8b6189ec4f7 before eb1a9637f0bd84b5db8803af65dfb1f44785406f; affected 77be155cba4e163e8bba9fd27222a8b6189ec4f7 before 7a5a1582710981ef6637de9f074a60a5b1d63222; affected 77be155cba4e163e8bba9fd27222a8b6189ec4f7 before 86a61e46a1919e8abf4d227c204773dabb24068a; affected 77be155cba4e163e8bba9fd27222a8b6189ec4f7 before 1b9cc255e8089606b92b2adf504e334573682821; affected 77be155cba4e163e8bba9fd27222a8b6189ec4f7 before 5889064919a1e5c0a9469c54895000414fc46944; affected 77be155cba4e163e8bba9fd27222a8b6189ec4f7 before fffeb2ab5eeb823d4c2330571a098f63237c9049; affected 77be155cba4e163e8bba9fd27222a8b6189ec4f7 before 54f6b0c843e228d499eb4b6bbb89df68cad9ad5d
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.29; unaffected 0 before 2.6.29; unaffected 5.10.261 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.212 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.178 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.145 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.97 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.40 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

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