CVE-2025-37797 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSYMS-10357353
  • published14 Jun 2025
  • disclosed13 Jun 2025

Introduced: 13 Jun 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-syms to version 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling

This patch fixes a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the HFSC qdisc class handling. The issue occurs due to a time-of-check/time-of-use condition in hfsc_change_class() when working with certain child qdiscs like netem or codel.

The vulnerability works as follows:

  1. hfsc_change_class() checks if a class has packets (q.qlen != 0)
  2. It then calls qdisc_peek_len(), which for certain qdiscs (e.g., codel, netem) might drop packets and empty the queue
  3. The code continues assuming the queue is still non-empty, adding the class to vttree
  4. This breaks HFSC scheduler assumptions that only non-empty classes are in vttree
  5. Later, when the class is destroyed, this can lead to a Use-After-Free

The fix adds a second queue length check after qdisc_peek_len() to verify the queue wasn't emptied.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1