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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38457" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-25T15:27:36.226Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:07:17.428Z" 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-2025-38457" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38457.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38457" title: "net/sched: Abort __tc_modify_qdisc if parent class does not exist" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: Abort __tc_modify_qdisc if parent class does not exist\n\nLion's patch [1] revealed an ancient bug in the qdisc API.\nWhenever a user creates/modifies a qdisc specifying as a parent another\nqdisc, the qdisc API will, during grafting, detect that the user is\nnot trying to attach to a class and reject. However grafting is\nperformed after qdisc_create (and thus the qdiscs' init callback) is\nexecuted. In qdiscs that eventually call qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog\nduring init or change (such as fq, hhf, choke, etc), an issue\narises. For example, executing the following commands:\n\nsudo tc qdisc add dev lo root handle a: htb default 2\nsudo tc qdisc add dev lo parent a: handle beef fq\n\nQdiscs such as fq, hhf, choke, etc unconditionally invoke\nqdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() in their control path init() or change() which\nthen causes a failure to find the child class; however, that does not stop\nthe unconditional invocation of the assumed child qdisc's qlen_notify with\na null class. All these qdiscs make the assumption that class is non-null.\n\nThe solution is ensure that qdisc_leaf() which looks up the parent\nclass, and is invoked prior to qdisc_create(), should return failure on\nnot finding the class.\nIn this patch, we leverage qdisc_leaf to return ERR_PTRs whenever the\nparentid doesn't correspond to a class, so that we can detect it\nearlier on and abort before qdisc_create is called.\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/d912cbd7-193b-4269-9857-525bee8bbb6a@gmail.com/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"923a276c74e25073ae391e930792ac86a9f77f1e"},{"version":"5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90436e72c9622c2f70389070088325a3232d339f"},{"version":"5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25452638f133ac19d75af3f928327d8016952c8e"},{"version":"5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23c165dde88eac405eebb59051ea1fe139a45803"},{"version":"5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c691d1b6b6dbd73f30ed9ee7da05f037b0c49af"},{"version":"5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ecd651ef24ab50123692a4e3e25db93cb11602a"},{"version":"5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e28a383d6485c3bb51dc5953552f76c4dea33eea"},{"version":"5e50da01d0ce7ef0ba3ed6cfabd62f327da0aca6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffdde7bf5a439aaa1955ebd581f5c64ab1533963"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.20"},{"version":"5.4.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.146","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.7","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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