CVE-2025-37797 Information

May 03, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling

This patch fixes a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the HFSC qdisc class handling. The issue occurs due to a time-of-check/time-of-use condition in hfsc_change_class() when working with certain child qdiscs like netem or codel.

The vulnerability works as follows:

  1. hfsc_change_class() checks if a class has packets (q.qlen != 0)
  2. It then calls qdisc_peek_len() which for certain qdiscs (e.g. codel netem) might drop packets and empty the queue
  3. The code continues assuming the queue is still non-empty adding the class to vttree
  4. This breaks HFSC scheduler assumptions that only non-empty classes are in vttree
  5. Later when the class is destroyed this can lead to a Use-After-Free

The fix adds a second queue length check after qdisc_peek_len() to verify the queue wasn’t emptied.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20d584a33e480ae80d105f43e0e7b56784da41b9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28b09a067831f7317c3841812276022d6c940677 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39b9095dd3b55d9b2743df038c32138efa34a9de https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3aa852e3605000d5c47035c3fc3a986d14ccfa9f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3df275ef0a6ae181e8428a6589ef5d5231e58b5c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86cd4641c713455a4f1c8e54c370c598c2b1cee0 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb583c88d23b72d8d16453d24856c99bd93dadf5 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcc8ede663569c704fb00a702973bd6c00373283

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