# 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-2025-39766"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-11T16:56:21.514Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-11T18:44:07.476Z"
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-2025-39766"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39766.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39766"
title: "net/sched: Make cake_enqueue return NET_XMIT_CN when past buffer_limit"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: Make cake_enqueue return NET_XMIT_CN when past buffer_limit\n\nThe following setup can trigger a WARNING in htb_activate due to\nthe condition: !cl-\u003eleaf.q-\u003eq.qlen\n\ntc qdisc del dev lo root\ntc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1: htb default 1\ntc class add dev lo parent 1: classid 1:1 \\\n       htb rate 64bit\ntc qdisc add dev lo parent 1:1 handle f: \\\n       cake memlimit 1b\nping -I lo -f -c1 -s64 -W0.001 127.0.0.1\n\nThis is because the low memlimit leads to a low buffer_limit, which\ncauses packet dropping. However, cake_enqueue still returns\nNET_XMIT_SUCCESS, causing htb_enqueue to call htb_activate with an\nempty child qdisc. We should return NET_XMIT_CN when packets are\ndropped from the same tin and flow.\n\nI do not believe return value of NET_XMIT_CN is necessary for packet\ndrops in the case of ack filtering, as that is meant to optimize\nperformance, not to signal congestion."
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