CVE-2025-38637

net_sched: skbprio: Remove overly strict queue assertions

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Apr 18, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net_sched: skbprio: Remove overly strict queue assertions

In the current implementation, skbprio enqueue/dequeue contains an assertion that fails under certain conditions when SKBPRIO is used as a child qdisc under TBF with specific parameters. The failure occurs because TBF sometimes peeks at packets in the child qdisc without actually dequeuing them when tokens are unavailable.

This peek operation creates a discrepancy between the parent and child qdisc queue length counters. When TBF later receives a high-priority packet, SKBPRIO's queue length may show a different value than what's reflected in its internal priority queue tracking, triggering the assertion.

The fix removes this overly strict assertions in SKBPRIO, they are not necessary at all.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before 7abc8318ce0712182bf0783dcfdd9a6a8331160eAffected
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before 1284733bab736e598341f1d3f3b94e2a322864a8Affected
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before 32ee79682315e6d3c99947b3f38b078a09a66919Affected
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before 1dcc144c322a8d526b791135604c0663f1af9d85Affected
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before 864ca690ff135078d374bd565b9872f161c614bcAffected
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before 2f35b7673a3aa3d09b3eb05811669622ebaa98caAffected
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before 2286770b07cb5268c03d11274b8efd43dff0d380Affected
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before 034b293bf17c124fec0f0e663f81203b00aa7a50Affected
  • aea5f654e6b78a0c976f7a25950155932c77a53f to before ce8fe975fd99b49c29c42e50f2441ba53112b2e8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.19Affected
  • before 4.19Not affected
  • 5.4.292 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.236 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.180 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.134 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.87 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.23 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.11 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14.2 through 6.14.*Not affected
  • 6.15 and laterNot affected

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