CVE-2025-21647

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Out-of-bounds Read in sch_cake Host Bulk Flow Fairness Counts

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: sch_cake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts Even though we fixed a logic error in the commit cited below, syzbot still managed to trigger an underflow of the per-host bulk flow counters, leading to an out of bounds memory access. To avoid any such logic errors causing out of bounds memory accesses, this commit factors out all accesses to the per-host bulk flow counters to a series of helpers that perform bounds-checking before any increments and decrements. This also has the benefit of improving readability by moving the conditional checks for the flow mode into these helpers, instead of having them spread out throughout the code (which was the cause of the original logic error). As part of this change, the flow quantum calculation is consolidated into a helper function, which means that the dithering applied to the ost load scaling is now applied both in the DRR rotation and when a sparse flow's quantum is first initiated. The only user-visible effect of this is that the maximum packet size that can be sent while a flow stays sparse will now vary with +/- one byte in some cases. This should not make a noticeable difference in practice, and thus it's not worth complicating the code to preserve the old behaviour.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 17.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (32)
linux/Kernel < 5.4.291linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.179linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.125linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.235linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.72linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.11
Linux/Linux 4a4eeefa514db570be025ab46d779af180e2c9bb - 44fe1efb4961c1a5ccab16bb579dfc6b308ad58b
Linux/Linux 5.10.226 - 5.10.235
Linux/Linux 5.10.235 - 5.10.*
... and 22 more
Published Jan 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026