# 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-2025-38083"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-20T11:21:51.554Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:07.502Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38083"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38083.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38083"
title: "net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune()\n\nGerrard Tai reported a race condition in PRIO, whenever SFQ perturb timer\nfires at the wrong time.\n\nThe race is as follows:\n\nCPU 0                                 CPU 1\n[1]: lock root\n[2]: qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()\n[3]: unlock root\n |\n |                                    [5]: lock root\n |                                    [6]: rehash\n |                                    [7]: qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()\n |\n[4]: qdisc_put()\n\nThis can be abused to underflow a parent's qlen.\n\nCalling qdisc_purge_queue() instead of qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()\nshould fix the race, because all packets will be purged from the qdisc\nbefore releasing the lock."
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