# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-53057"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-11-19T17:19:40.284Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:58:34.250Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53057"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53057.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53057"
title: "net/sched: stop qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog on TC_H_ROOT"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: stop qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog on TC_H_ROOT\n\nIn qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog, Qdiscs with major handle ffff: are assumed\nto be either root or ingress. This assumption is bogus since it's valid\nto create egress qdiscs with major handle ffff:\nBudimir Markovic found that for qdiscs like DRR that maintain an active\nclass list, it will cause a UAF with a dangling class pointer.\n\nIn 066a3b5b2346, the concern was to avoid iterating over the ingress\nqdisc since its parent is itself. The proper fix is to stop when parent\nTC_H_ROOT is reached because the only way to retrieve ingress is when a\nhierarchy which does not contain a ffff: major handle call into\nqdisc_lookup with TC_H_MAJ(TC_H_ROOT).\n\nIn the scenario where major ffff: is an egress qdisc in any of the tree\nlevels, the updates will also propagate to TC_H_ROOT, which then the\niteration must stop.\n\n\n net/sched/sch_api.c | 2 +-\n 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)"
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