CVE-2025-21692

net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 10, 2025 at 03:58 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 02:17 AM UTC
12 products affected across 2 vendorsLinux KernelSIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFPRUGGEDCOM RST2428P Firmware

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing Haowei Yan <[email protected]> found that ets_class_from_arg() can index an Out-Of-Bound class in ets_class_from_arg() when passed clid of 0. The overflow may cause local privilege escalation. [ 18.852298] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 18.853271] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/sched/sch_ets.c:93:20 [ 18.853743] index 18446744073709551615 is out of range for type 'ets_class [16]' [ 18.854254] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1275 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.12.6-dirty #17 [ 18.854821] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 18.856532] Call Trace: [ 18.857441] <TASK> [ 18.858227] dump_stack_lvl+0xc2/0xf0 [ 18.859607] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 18.860908] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xa7/0xf0 [ 18.864022] ets_class_change+0x3d6/0x3f0 [ 18.864322] tc_ctl_tclass+0x251/0x910 [ 18.864587] ? lock_acquire+0x5e/0x140 [ 18.865113] ? __mutex_lock+0x9c/0xe70 [ 18.866009] ? __mutex_lock+0xa34/0xe70 [ 18.866401] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x170/0x6f0 [ 18.866806] ? __lock_acquire+0x578/0xc10 [ 18.867184] ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10 [ 18.867503] netlink_rcv_skb+0x59/0x110 [ 18.867776] rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x30 [ 18.868159] netlink_unicast+0x1c3/0x2b0 [ 18.868440] netlink_sendmsg+0x239/0x4b0 [ 18.868721] ____sys_sendmsg+0x3e2/0x410 [ 18.869012] ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xe0 [ 18.869276] ? rseq_ip_fixup+0x198/0x260 [ 18.869563] ? rseq_update_cpu_node_id+0x10a/0x190 [ 18.869900] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0x5a/0xd0 [ 18.870196] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xcc/0x220 [ 18.870547] ? do_syscall_64+0x93/0x150 [ 18.870821] ? __memcg_slab_free_hook+0x69/0x290 [ 18.871157] __sys_sendmsg+0x69/0xd0 [ 18.871416] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1d/0x30 [ 18.871699] x64_sys_call+0x9e2/0x2670 [ 18.871979] do_syscall_64+0x87/0x150 [ 18.873280] ? do_syscall_64+0x93/0x150 [ 18.874742] ? lock_release+0x7b/0x160 [ 18.876157] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x5ce/0x8f0 [ 18.877833] ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xc2/0x210 [ 18.879608] ? irqentry_exit+0x77/0xb0 [ 18.879808] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880023] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880223] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880426] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 18.880683] RIP: 0033:0x44a957 [ 18.880851] Code: ff ff e8 fc 00 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 8974 24 10 [ 18.881766] RSP: 002b:00007ffcdd00fad8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e [ 18.882149] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcdd010db8 RCX: 000000000044a957 [ 18.882507] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffcdd00fb70 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 18.885037] RBP: 00007ffcdd010bc0 R08: 000000000703c770 R09: 000000000703c7c0 [ 18.887203] R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 18.888026] R13: 00007ffcdd010da8 R14: 00000000004ca7d0 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 18.888395] </TASK> [ 18.888610] ---[ end trace ]---

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.1785.16 ≤ v < 6.1.1285.6 ≤ v < 5.10.2346.2 ≤ v < 6.6.756.7 ≤ v < 6.12.126.136.13 rc16.13 rc26.13 rc36.13 rc46.13 rc56.13 rc66.13 rc7dcc68b4d8084e1ac9af0d4022d6b1aff6a139a33
Vendor states this is fixed in 03c56665dab1f4ac844bc156652d50d639093fa5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1332c6ed446be787f901ed1064ec6a3c694f028a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 997f6ec4208b23c87daf9f044689685f091826f7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bcf0d815e728a3a304b50455b32a3170c16e1eaa (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d62b04fca4340a0d468d7853bd66e511935a18cb (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f4168299e553f17aa2ba4016e77a9c38da40eb1d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f6b0f05fbfa4044f890e8a348288c0d9a20bd1d0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.234 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.178 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.128 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.13.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.75 (unaffected)
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V3.2
Affected range stops below V3.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (11)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c56665dab1f4ac844bc156652d50d639093fa5
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1332c6ed446be787f901ed1064ec6a3c694f028a
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/997f6ec4208b23c87daf9f044689685f091826f7
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcf0d815e728a3a304b50455b32a3170c16e1eaa
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d62b04fca4340a0d468d7853bd66e511935a18cb
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4168299e553f17aa2ba4016e77a9c38da40eb1d
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6b0f05fbfa4044f890e8a348288c0d9a20bd1d0
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-129

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