CVE-2025-21692

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21692
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21692.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21692
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-10T15:58:48.087Z
Modified
2026-06-18T03:55:11.832959547Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing
Details

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

net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing

Haowei Yan g1042620637@gmail.com found that etsclassfromarg() can index an Out-Of-Bound class in etsclassfromarg() 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/schets.c:93:20 [ 18.853743] index 18446744073709551615 is out of range for type 'etsclass [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] dumpstacklvl+0xc2/0xf0 [ 18.859607] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 18.860908] __ubsanhandleoutofbounds+0xa7/0xf0 [ 18.864022] etsclasschange+0x3d6/0x3f0 [ 18.864322] tcctltclass+0x251/0x910 [ 18.864587] ? lock_acquire+0x5e/0x140 [ 18.865113] ? __mutex_lock+0x9c/0xe70 [ 18.866009] ? __mutexlock+0xa34/0xe70 [ 18.866401] rtnetlinkrcv_msg+0x170/0x6f0 [ 18.866806] ? __lock_acquire+0x578/0xc10 [ 18.867184] ? __pfxrtnetlinkrcvmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 18.867503] netlinkrcvskb+0x59/0x110 [ 18.867776] rtnetlinkrcv+0x15/0x30 [ 18.868159] netlinkunicast+0x1c3/0x2b0 [ 18.868440] netlinksendmsg+0x239/0x4b0 [ 18.868721] ____sys_sendmsg+0x3e2/0x410 [ 18.869012] ___syssendmsg+0x88/0xe0 [ 18.869276] ? rseqipfixup+0x198/0x260 [ 18.869563] ? rsequpdate_cpunodeid+0x10a/0x190 [ 18.869900] ? tracehardirqsoff+0x5a/0xd0 [ 18.870196] ? syscallexittousermode+0xcc/0x220 [ 18.870547] ? dosyscall64+0x93/0x150 [ 18.870821] ? __memcgslabfree_hook+0x69/0x290 [ 18.871157] __sys_sendmsg+0x69/0xd0 [ 18.871416] __x64syssendmsg+0x1d/0x30 [ 18.871699] x64syscall+0x9e2/0x2670 [ 18.871979] dosyscall64+0x87/0x150 [ 18.873280] ? dosyscall64+0x93/0x150 [ 18.874742] ? lockrelease+0x7b/0x160 [ 18.876157] ? douseraddrfault+0x5ce/0x8f0 [ 18.877833] ? irqentryexittousermode+0xc2/0x210 [ 18.879608] ? irqentryexit+0x77/0xb0 [ 18.879808] ? clearbhbloop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880023] ? clearbhbloop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880223] ? clearbhbloop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880426] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+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 ORIGRAX: 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 ]---

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21692.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
dcc68b4d8084e1ac9af0d4022d6b1aff6a139a33
Fixed
03c56665dab1f4ac844bc156652d50d639093fa5
Fixed
bcf0d815e728a3a304b50455b32a3170c16e1eaa
Fixed
1332c6ed446be787f901ed1064ec6a3c694f028a
Fixed
f4168299e553f17aa2ba4016e77a9c38da40eb1d
Fixed
997f6ec4208b23c87daf9f044689685f091826f7
Fixed
f6b0f05fbfa4044f890e8a348288c0d9a20bd1d0
Fixed
d62b04fca4340a0d468d7853bd66e511935a18cb

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21692.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.6.0
Fixed
5.10.234
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.178
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.128
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.75
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.12
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.13.1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21692.json"