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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38115" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:23.750Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:08.900Z" 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-2025-38115" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38115.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38115" title: "net_sched: sch_sfq: fix a potential crash on gso_skb handling" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet_sched: sch_sfq: fix a potential crash on gso_skb handling\n\nSFQ has an assumption of always being able to queue at least one packet.\n\nHowever, after the blamed commit, sch-\u003eq.len can be inflated by packets\nin sch-\u003egso_skb, and an enqueue() on an empty SFQ qdisc can be followed\nby an immediate drop.\n\nFix sfq_drop() to properly clear q-\u003etail in this situation.\n\n\nip netns add lb\nip link add dev to-lb type veth peer name in-lb netns lb\nethtool -K to-lb tso off # force qdisc to requeue gso_skb\nip netns exec lb ethtool -K in-lb gro on # enable NAPI\nip link set dev to-lb up\nip -netns lb link set dev in-lb up\nip addr add dev to-lb 192.168.20.1/24\nip -netns lb addr add dev in-lb 192.168.20.2/24\ntc qdisc replace dev to-lb root sfq limit 100\n\nip netns exec lb netserver\n\nnetperf -H 192.168.20.2 -l 100 &\nnetperf -H 192.168.20.2 -l 100 &\nnetperf -H 192.168.20.2 -l 100 &\nnetperf -H 192.168.20.2 -l 100 &" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a53851e2c3218aa30b77abd6e68cf1c371f15afe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c337efb20d6d9f9bbb4746f6b119917af5c886dc"},{"version":"a53851e2c3218aa30b77abd6e68cf1c371f15afe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b44f791f27b14c9eb6b907fbe51f2ba8bec32085"},{"version":"a53851e2c3218aa30b77abd6e68cf1c371f15afe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5814a7fc3abb41f63f2d44c9d3ff9d4e62965b72"},{"version":"a53851e2c3218aa30b77abd6e68cf1c371f15afe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c19498bdd7cb9d854bd3c54260f71cf7408495e"},{"version":"a53851e2c3218aa30b77abd6e68cf1c371f15afe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4e9bab6011b9559b7c157b16b91ae46d4d8c533"},{"version":"a53851e2c3218aa30b77abd6e68cf1c371f15afe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1bc80da75c789f2f6830df89d91fb2f7a509943"},{"version":"a53851e2c3218aa30b77abd6e68cf1c371f15afe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82448d4dcd8406dec688632a405fdcf7f170ec69"},{"version":"a53851e2c3218aa30b77abd6e68cf1c371f15afe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82ffbe7776d0ac084031f114167712269bf3d832"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"5.4.295","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.239","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.186","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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