CVE-2025-38001

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

net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice

Savino says: We are writing to report that this recent patch (141d34391abbb315d68556b7c67ad97885407547) [1] can be bypassed, and a UAF can still occur when HFSC is utilized with NETEM.

The patch only checks the cl->cl_nactive field to determine whether
it is the first insertion or not [2], but this field is only
incremented by init_vf [3].

By using HFSC_RSC (which uses init_ed) [4], it is possible to bypass the
check and insert the class twice in the eltree.
Under normal conditions, this would lead to an infinite loop in
hfsc_dequeue for the reasons we already explained in this report [5].

However, if TBF is added as root qdisc and it is configured with a
very low rate,
it can be utilized to prevent packets from being dequeued.
This behavior can be exploited to perform subsequent insertions in the
HFSC eltree and cause a UAF.

To fix both the UAF and the infinite loop, with netem as an hfsc child, check explicitly in hfsc_enqueue whether the class is already in the eltree whenever the HFSC_RSC flag is set.

[1] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=141d34391abbb315d68556b7c67ad97885407547 [2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.15-rc5/source/net/sched/sch_hfsc.c#L1572 [3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.15-rc5/source/net/sched/sch_hfsc.c#L677 [4] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.15-rc5/source/net/sched/sch_hfsc.c#L1574 [5] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/8DuRWwfqjoRDLDmBMlIfbrsZg9Gx50DHJc1ilxsEBNe2D6NMoigR_eIRIG0LOjMc3r10nUUZtArXx4oZBIdUfZQrwjcQhdinnMis_0G7VEk=@willsroot.io/T/#u

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/295f7c579b07b5b7cf2dffe485f71cc2f27647cb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c928b3a0b04a431ffcd6c8b7d88a267124a3a28
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f2190ce4ca972051cac6a8d7937448f8cb9673c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39ed887b1dd2d6b720f87e86692ac3006cc111c8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e38eaaabfb7fffbb371a51150203e19eee5d70e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6672e6c00810056acaac019fe26cdc26fee8a66c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0ec22fa20b252edbe070a9de8501eef63c17ef5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac9fe7dd8e730a103ae4481147395cc73492d786
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5bee633cc276410337d54b99f77fbc1ad8801e5
• https://syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-family-drama/