Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELHEADERS-11245229
- published30 Jul 2025
- disclosed1 Apr 2025
Introduced: 1 Apr 2025
CVE-2025-21971 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net_sched: Prevent creation of classes with TC_H_ROOT
The function qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() uses TC_H_ROOT as a termination condition when traversing up the qdisc tree to update parent backlog counters. However, if a class is created with classid TC_H_ROOT, the traversal terminates prematurely at this class instead of reaching the actual root qdisc, causing parent statistics to be incorrectly maintained. In case of DRR, this could lead to a crash as reported by Mingi Cho.
Prevent the creation of any Qdisc class with classid TC_H_ROOT (0xFFFFFFFF) across all qdisc types, as suggested by Jamal.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356598
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21971
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/003d92c91cdb5a64b25a9a74cb8543aac9a8bb48
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c3057a5a04d07120b3d0ec9c79568fceb9c921e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c3ca9cb48b51bd72bf76b8b05e24f3cd53db5e7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78533c4a29ac3aeddce4b481770beaaa4f3bfb67
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a82fe67a9f4d7123d8e5ba8f0f0806c28695006
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94edfdfb9505ab608e86599d1d1e38c83816fc1c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e05d9938b1b0ac40b6054cc5fa0ccbd9afd5ed4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5ee00607bbfc97ef1526ea95b6b2458ac9e7cb7
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html