# 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-2025-38193"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:17.285Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:10.998Z"
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-2025-38193"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38193.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38193"
title: "net_sched: sch_sfq: reject invalid perturb period"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet_sched: sch_sfq: reject invalid perturb period\n\nGerrard Tai reported that SFQ perturb_period has no range check yet,\nand this can be used to trigger a race condition fixed in a separate patch.\n\nWe want to make sure ctl-\u003eperturb_period * HZ will not overflow\nand is positive.\n\n\ntc qd add dev lo root sfq perturb -10   # negative value : error\nError: sch_sfq: invalid perturb period.\n\ntc qd add dev lo root sfq perturb 1000000000 # too big : error\nError: sch_sfq: invalid perturb period.\n\ntc qd add dev lo root sfq perturb 2000000 # acceptable value\ntc -s -d qd sh dev lo\nqdisc sfq 8005: root refcnt 2 limit 127p quantum 64Kb depth 127 flows 128 divisor 1024 perturb 2000000sec\n Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)\n backlog 0b 0p requeues 0"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0936ff56be4e08ad5b60ec26971eae0c40af305"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2254d038dab9c194fe6a4b1ce31034f42e91a6e5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"956b5aebb349449b38d920d444ca1392d43719d1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b11a50544af691b787384089b68f740ae20a441b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0357da9149eac621f39e235a135ebf155f01f7c3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9b97d466e6026ccbdda30bb5b71965b67ccbc82"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"590b2d7d0beadba2aa576708a05a05f0aae39295"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ca52541c05c832d32b112274f81a985101f9ba8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.240","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":"6.6.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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