# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-52997"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:09.997Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:09.997Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-52997"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52997.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52997"
title: "net/sched: sch_dualpi2: drain both C-queue and L-queue in dualpi2_change()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: sch_dualpi2: drain both C-queue and L-queue in dualpi2_change()\n\nFix dualpi2_change() to correctly enforce updated limit and memlimit\nvalues after a configuration change of the dualpi2 qdisc.\n\nBefore this patch, dualpi2_change() always attempted to dequeue packets\nvia the root qdisc (C-queue) when reducing backlog or memory usage, and\nunconditionally assumed that a valid skb will be returned. When traffic\nclassification results in packets being queued in the L-queue while the\nC-queue is empty, this leads to a NULL skb dereference during limit or\nmemlimit enforcement.\n\nThis is fixed by first dequeuing from the C-queue path if it is\nnon-empty. Once the C-queue is empty, packets are dequeued directly from\nthe L-queue. Return values from qdisc_dequeue_internal() are checked for\nboth queues. When dequeuing from the L-queue, the parent qdisc qlen and\nbacklog counters are updated explicitly to keep overall qdisc statistics\nconsistent."
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