CVE-2025-38083CWE-362

CVE-2025-38083

High · published June 20, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()

Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in PRIO, 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00152 · 4.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Published
2025-06-20T16:15Z
Affected products (9)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.0, < 5.4.2955.4.295
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2395.10.239
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1865.15.186
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1426.1.142
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.946.6.94
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.346.12.34
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.15.36.15.3
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
References (11)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 JUN 11:21Z
    net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()
    cvelistv5