# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21703"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-18T14:37:44.261Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:03:25.306Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
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-2025-21703"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21703.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21703"
title: "netem: Update sch-\u003eq.qlen before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetem: Update sch-\u003eq.qlen before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()\n\nqdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() notifies parent qdisc only if child\nqdisc becomes empty, therefore we need to reduce the backlog of the\nchild qdisc before calling it. Otherwise it would miss the opportunity\nto call cops-\u003eqlen_notify(), in the case of DRR, it resulted in UAF\nsince DRR uses -\u003eqlen_notify() to maintain its active list."
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