CVE-2025-38568

high

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffd2dc4c6c49ff4f1e5d34e454a6a55608104c17

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1a9dbcb7d17bf0abb325cdc984957cfabc59693

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d00e4125680f7074c4f42ce3c297336f23128e70

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66fc2ebdd9d5dd6e5a9c7edeace5a61a0ab2cd86

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39491e859fd494d0b51adc5c7d54c8a7dcf1d198

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-19

Updated: 2025-08-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00021