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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68815" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:29:19.789Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:05:08.556Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z" 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-2025-68815" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68815.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68815" title: "net/sched: ets: Remove drr class from the active list if it changes to strict" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: ets: Remove drr class from the active list if it changes to strict\n\nWhenever a user issues an ets qdisc change command, transforming a\ndrr class into a strict one, the ets code isn't checking whether that\nclass was in the active list and removing it. This means that, if a\nuser changes a strict class (which was in the active list) back to a drr\none, that class will be added twice to the active list [1].\n\nDoing so with the following commands:\n\ntc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1: ets bands 2 strict 1\ntc qdisc add dev lo parent 1:2 handle 20: \\\n tbf rate 8bit burst 100b latency 1s\ntc filter add dev lo parent 1: basic classid 1:2\nping -c1 -W0.01 -s 56 127.0.0.1\ntc qdisc change dev lo root handle 1: ets bands 2 strict 2\ntc qdisc change dev lo root handle 1: ets bands 2 strict 1\nping -c1 -W0.01 -s 56 127.0.0.1\n\nWill trigger the following splat with list debug turned on:\n\n[ 59.279014][ T365] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 59.279452][ T365] list_add double add: new=ffff88801d60e350, prev=ffff88801d60e350, next=ffff88801d60e2c0.\n[ 59.280153][ T365] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 365 at lib/list_debug.c:35 __list_add_valid_or_report+0x17f/0x220\n[ 59.280860][ T365] Modules linked in:\n[ 59.281165][ T365] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 365 Comm: tc Not tainted 6.18.0-rc7-00105-g7e9f13163c13-dirty #239 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[ 59.281977][ T365] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011\n[ 59.282391][ T365] RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0x17f/0x220\n[ 59.282842][ T365] Code: 89 c6 e8 d4 b7 0d ff 90 0f 0b 90 90 31 c0 e9 31 ff ff ff 90 48 c7 c7 e0 a0 22 9f 48 89 f2 48 89 c1 4c 89 c6 e8 b2 b7 0d ff 90 \u003c0f\u003e 0b 90 90 31 c0 e9 0f ff ff ff 48 89 f7 48 89 44 24 10 4c 89 44\n...\n[ 59.288812][ T365] Call Trace:\n[ 59.289056][ T365] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 59.289224][ T365] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 59.289546][ T365] ets_qdisc_change+0xd2b/0x1e80\n[ 59.289891][ T365] ? __lock_acquire+0x7e7/0x1be0\n[ 59.290223][ T365] ? __pfx_ets_qdisc_change+0x10/0x10\n[ 59.290546][ T365] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 59.290898][ T365] ? __mutex_trylock_common+0xda/0x240\n[ 59.291228][ T365] ? __pfx___mutex_trylock_common+0x10/0x10\n[ 59.291655][ T365] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 59.291993][ T365] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 59.292313][ T365] ? trace_contention_end+0xc8/0x110\n[ 59.292656][ T365] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 59.293022][ T365] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 59.293351][ T365] tc_modify_qdisc+0x63a/0x1cf0\n\nFix this by always checking and removing an ets class from the active list\nwhen changing it to strict.\n\n[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/tree/net/sched/sch_ets.c?id=ce052b9402e461a9aded599f5b47e76bc727f7de#n663" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f517335a61ff8037b18ba1b0a002c1f82926a934","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58fdce6bc005e964f1dbc3ca716f5fe0f68839a2"},{"version":"cd9b50adc6bb9ad3f7d244590a389522215865c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02783a37cb1c0a2bd9fcba4ff1b81e6e209c7d87"},{"version":"cd9b50adc6bb9ad3f7d244590a389522215865c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8067db5c95aab9461d23117679338cd8869831fa"},{"version":"cd9b50adc6bb9ad3f7d244590a389522215865c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f125ebe47d6369e562f3cbd9b6227cff51eaf34"},{"version":"cd9b50adc6bb9ad3f7d244590a389522215865c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cca2ed931b734fe48139bc6f020e47367346630f"},{"version":"cd9b50adc6bb9ad3f7d244590a389522215865c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43d9a530c8c094d137159784e7c951c65f11ec6c"},{"version":"cd9b50adc6bb9ad3f7d244590a389522215865c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1e125ae425aba9b45252e933ca8df52a843ec70"},{"version":"d05330672afe2e142ba97e63bd7c1faef76781bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.62","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.248"},{"version":"5.13.14","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"5.10.248","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","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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