net/sched: mqprio: fix stack out-of-bounds write in tc entry parsing (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-38568
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: mqprio: fix stack out-of-bounds write in tc entry parsing TCA_MQPRIO_TC_ENTRY_INDEX is validated using NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U32, TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE), which allows the value TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE (16). This leads to a 4-byte out-of-bounds stack write in the fp[] array, which only has room for 16 elements (0–15). Fix this by changing the policy to allow only up to TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE - 1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f62af20bed2d9e824f51cfc97ff01bc261f40e58 < 39491e859fd494d0b51adc5c7d54c8a7dcf1d198 ; affected f62af20bed2d9e824f51cfc97ff01bc261f40e58 < d00e4125680f7074c4f42ce3c297336f23128e70 ; affected f62af20bed2d9e824f51cfc97ff01bc261f40e58 < 66fc2ebdd9d5dd6e5a9c7edeace5a61a0ab2cd86 ; affected f62af20bed2d9e824f51cfc97ff01bc261f40e58 < f1a9dbcb7d17bf0abb325cdc984957cfabc59693 ; affected f62af20bed2d9e824f51cfc97ff01bc261f40e58 < ffd2dc4c6c49ff4f1e5d34e454a6a55608104c17
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.4 ; unaffected 0 < 6.4 ; unaffected 6.6.102 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.42 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.15.10 ≤ 6.15.* ; unaffected 6.16.1 ≤ 6.16.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD