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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64012" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:56:26.608Z" updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:56:26.608Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64012" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64012.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64012" title: "net/sched: sch_sfb: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: sch_sfb: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked\n\nWhen sfb has children (eg qfq qdisc) whose peek() callback is\nqdisc_peek_dequeued(), we could get a kernel panic. When the parent of such\nqdiscs (eg illustrated in patch #3 as tbf) wants to retrieve an skb from\nits child (sfb in this case), it will do the following:\n 1a. do a peek() - and when sensing there's an skb the child can offer, then\n - the child in this case(sfb) calls its child's (qfq) peek.\n qfq does the right thing and will return the gso_skb queue packet.\n Note: if there wasnt a gso_skb entry then qfq will store it there.\n 1b. invoke a dequeue() on the child (sfb). And herein lies the problem.\n - sfb will call the child's dequeue() which will essentially just\n try to grab something of qfq's queue.\n\n[ 127.594489][ T453] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000048-0x000000000000004f]\n[ 127.594741][ T453] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 453 Comm: ping Not tainted 7.1.0-rc1-00035-gac961974495b-dirty #793 PREEMPT(full)\n[ 127.595059][ T453] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011\n[ 127.595254][ T453] RIP: 0010:qfq_dequeue+0x35c/0x1650 [sch_qfq]\n[ 127.595461][ T453] Code: 00 fc ff df 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 17 0e 00 00 4c 8d 73 48 48 89 9d b8 02 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 f2 48 c1 ea 03 \u003c80\u003e 3c 02 00 0f 85 76 0c 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b\n[ 127.596081][ T453] RSP: 0018:ffff88810e5af440 EFLAGS: 00010216\n[ 127.596337][ T453] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: dffffc0000000000\n[ 127.596623][ T453] RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000001880000000 RDI: ffff888104fd82b0\n[ 127.596917][ T453] RBP: ffff888104fd8000 R08: ffff888104fd8280 R09: 1ffff110211893a3\n[ 127.597165][ T453] R10: 1ffff110211893a6 R11: 1ffff110211893a7 R12: 0000001880000000\n[ 127.597404][ T453] R13: ffff888104fd82b8 R14: 0000000000000048 R15: 0000000040000000\n[ 127.597644][ T453] FS: 00007fc380cbfc40(0000) GS:ffff88816f2a8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 127.597956][ T453] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 127.598160][ T453] CR2: 00005610aa9890a8 CR3: 000000010369e000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0\n[ 127.598390][ T453] PKRU: 55555554\n[ 127.598509][ T453] Call Trace:\n[ 127.598629][ T453] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 127.598718][ T453] ? mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70\n[ 127.598890][ T453] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 127.599053][ T453] sfb_dequeue+0x88/0x4d0\n[ 127.599174][ T453] ? ktime_get+0x137/0x230\n[ 127.599328][ T453] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 127.599480][ T453] ? qdisc_peek_dequeued+0x7b/0x350 [sch_qfq]\n[ 127.599670][ T453] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 127.599831][ T453] tbf_dequeue+0x6b1/0x1098 [sch_tbf]\n[ 127.599988][ T453] __qdisc_run+0x169/0x1900\n\nThe right thing to do in #1b is to grab the skb off gso_skb queue.\nThis patchset fixes that issue by changing #1b to use qdisc_dequeue_peeked()\nmethod instead." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e13e02a3c68d899169c78d9a18689bd73491d59a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5ea51e5f3fbba41d50cd84a530f33bc1c8f4d57"},{"version":"e13e02a3c68d899169c78d9a18689bd73491d59a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e70274d3b81de28973bcdbce40a512bcb181ff9"},{"version":"e13e02a3c68d899169c78d9a18689bd73491d59a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e125f5980b730c67c92a30cf150ec8c3d6777318"},{"version":"e13e02a3c68d899169c78d9a18689bd73491d59a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c153d97c100f5b282c424101d8ff63122306997"},{"version":"e13e02a3c68d899169c78d9a18689bd73491d59a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84bfbfc0c48731bcce74cdf4f9c497547ec525e0"},{"version":"e13e02a3c68d899169c78d9a18689bd73491d59a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbc560858da8b77dd9e4ef0cd93d421e0e4d7e0e"},{"version":"e13e02a3c68d899169c78d9a18689bd73491d59a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ad3288632c859cf84183199832d822e7a70bdae"},{"version":"e13e02a3c68d899169c78d9a18689bd73491d59a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b9bc71153b01dbde8045b9edede4240f4f5520e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.39","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.39"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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