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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39677" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-05T17:20:43.145Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:37:15.872Z" 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-2025-39677" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39677.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39677" title: "net/sched: Fix backlog accounting in qdisc_dequeue_internal" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: Fix backlog accounting in qdisc_dequeue_internal\n\nThis issue applies for the following qdiscs: hhf, fq, fq_codel, and\nfq_pie, and occurs in their change handlers when adjusting to the new\nlimit. The problem is the following in the values passed to the\nsubsequent qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog call given a tbf parent:\n\n When the tbf parent runs out of tokens, skbs of these qdiscs will\n be placed in gso_skb. Their peek handlers are qdisc_peek_dequeued,\n which accounts for both qlen and backlog. However, in the case of\n qdisc_dequeue_internal, ONLY qlen is accounted for when pulling\n from gso_skb. This means that these qdiscs are missing a\n qdisc_qstats_backlog_dec when dropping packets to satisfy the\n new limit in their change handlers.\n\n One can observe this issue with the following (with tc patched to\n support a limit of 0):\n\n export TARGET=fq\n tc qdisc del dev lo root\n tc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1: tbf rate 8bit burst 100b latency 1ms\n tc qdisc replace dev lo handle 3: parent 1:1 $TARGET limit 1000\n echo ''; echo 'add child'; tc -s -d qdisc show dev lo\n ping -I lo -f -c2 -s32 -W0.001 127.0.0.1 2\u003e&1 \u003e/dev/null\n echo ''; echo 'after ping'; tc -s -d qdisc show dev lo\n tc qdisc change dev lo handle 3: parent 1:1 $TARGET limit 0\n echo ''; echo 'after limit drop'; tc -s -d qdisc show dev lo\n tc qdisc replace dev lo handle 2: parent 1:1 sfq\n echo ''; echo 'post graft'; tc -s -d qdisc show dev lo\n\n The second to last show command shows 0 packets but a positive\n number (74) of backlog bytes. The problem becomes clearer in the\n last show command, where qdisc_purge_queue triggers\n qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog with the positive backlog and causes an\n underflow in the tbf parent's backlog (4096 Mb instead of 0).\n\nTo fix this issue, the codepath for all clients of qdisc_dequeue_internal\nhas been simplified: codel, pie, hhf, fq, fq_pie, and fq_codel.\nqdisc_dequeue_internal handles the backlog adjustments for all cases that\ndo not directly use the dequeue handler.\n\nThe old fq_codel_change limit adjustment loop accumulated the arguments to\nthe subsequent qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog call through the cstats field.\nHowever, this is confusing and error prone as fq_codel_dequeue could also\npotentially mutate this field (which qdisc_dequeue_internal calls in the\nnon gso_skb case), so we have unified the code here with other qdiscs." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4b549a2ef4bef9965d97cbd992ba67930cd3e0fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcfed7251e23cd71d32c4ecc444ff97992087e46"},{"version":"4b549a2ef4bef9965d97cbd992ba67930cd3e0fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38cdf8d1f5f3ee133f6e48dd422df4057fa9bfcb"},{"version":"4b549a2ef4bef9965d97cbd992ba67930cd3e0fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a225f44d84b8900d679c5f5a9ea46fe9c0cc7802"},{"version":"4b549a2ef4bef9965d97cbd992ba67930cd3e0fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52bf272636bda69587952b35ae97690b8dc89941"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","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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