CVE-2025-21703 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 18
Latest updateNov 21
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netem: Update sch->q.qlen before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() notifies parent qdisc only if child
qdisc becomes empty, therefore we need to reduce the backlog of the
child qdisc before calling it. Otherwise it would miss the opportunity
to call cops->qlen_notify(), in the case of DRR, it resulted in UAF
since DRR uses ->qlen_notify() to maintain its active list.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages10 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux83c6ab12f08dcc09d4c5ac86fdb89736b28f1d31 — e395fec75ac2dbffc99b4bce57b7f1f3c5449f2c+8